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Delphia, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Daisy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41735. It stands on Ax Handle Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tilford quadrangle. It stands 1,476 feet above sea level.

Delphia within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

95 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Delphia between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,694 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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 burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism22
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 July 2014Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBARK CAMP BRANCH- DELPHIA
30 May 2007Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2018Arson/incendiarism683 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE SHEPHERD TRAIL
6 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2001Debris and open burning75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 1999Debris and open burning68 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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 Delphia: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hurricane Gap QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delphia in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindDelphia$10,000A power pole was reported blown down, leaving power lines on a residence and transformer on a driveway in the 2000 block of KY-463, just west of the Delphia community.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDelphia$1,000One tree down along Highway 463.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tilford1.1 miles14
Slemp3.6 miles14
Beehive (historical)3.7 miles14
Wentz3.8 miles14
Leatherwood4.5 miles13
Beech Fork (historical)4.7 miles13
Daisy5.8 miles14
Cornettsville7.2 miles16

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 DelphiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5254410The 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 511778. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.