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Deevert, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41143. It lies near Potato Knob. The Survey maps it on the Tygarts Valley quadrangle.

Deevert within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

127 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Deevert between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,328 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 30 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Debris and open burning30
Arson/incendiarism30
Recreation and ceremony19
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryAA HAYFIELD
18 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFORT FALLS
7 July 2012Natural25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCARTER CAV
11 June 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySMITH BRANCH RD
9 April 2012Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGREGORY HO
9 April 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2001Arson/incendiarism75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Deevert: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Olive Hill Fire Clay DistrictFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown
Fultz MineClayPast Producer
Gesling Open Pit MineClayPast Producer
Messer MineClayProducer
Wesley Corn MineClayProducer
Womack MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carter County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Iron Hill1.5 miles8
Charlotte Furnace1.9 miles8
Wolf3.0 miles8
Gesling3.8 miles8
Gregoryville4.1 miles9
Lindsey Chapel (historical)4.8 miles15
Carter5.2 miles8
The Cross Roads (historical)5.4 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122570077The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507836. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.