Defiance, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Defiance-Vicco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41746. It stands on White Oak Branch. The Survey maps it on the Vicco quadrangle. It stands 955 feet above sea level.

Defiance within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1916 USGS Cornettsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Vicco quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Vicco quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

427 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 427 fires within 5 miles of Defiance between 1994 and 2020, burning about 16,248 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 85 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	180
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	117
Arson/incendiarism	85
Recreation and ceremony	33
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	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
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2007	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MONTGOMERY CREEK
29 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JEFF
29 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	ORCHARD
26 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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
Happy	0.3 miles	16
Scuddy	0.4 miles	16
Acup (historical)	1.6 miles	16
Vicco	1.8 miles	16
Allock	2.0 miles	16
Fusonia	2.0 miles	16
Big Branch (historical)	2.1 miles	16
Jeff	2.4 miles	16

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 Defiance	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5251519	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 507837. 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.