Defeated Creek, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Blackey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41833. It stands on Looney Branch. The Survey maps it on the Roxana quadrangle.

Defeated Creek within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1913 USGS Oven Fork quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Roxana quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

129 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Defeated Creek between 1997 and 2020, burning about 11,683 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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
Debris and open burning	57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Arson/incendiarism	25
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
21 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 June 2002	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	190 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SAND HILL
2 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	127 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 May 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2002	Debris and open burning	700 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Defeated Creek: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hurricane Gap Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Letcher 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hubert (historical)	0.3 miles	16
Skyline	1.8 miles	16
Turkey Creek (historical)	2.0 miles	14
Banks	2.7 miles	14
Line Fork (historical)	2.8 miles	16
Linefork	2.8 miles	16
Flint	3.2 miles	16
Hallie	3.8 miles	14

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.

Wikipedia article on Defeated Creek	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18350947	The 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 490785. 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.