BlockDelta, Kentucky
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gregory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42518. It lies near Turkey Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Coopersville quadrangle. It stands 823 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1932 USGS Burnside quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Coopersville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
32 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Delta between 1999 and 2020, burning about 726 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 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 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 August 1999 | Natural | 75 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 27 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CRITT KEITH RD. |
| 23 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 April 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MOODY CLIF |
| 17 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delta in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were down and blocking Brammer Hill Rd in the Delta community. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Delta | - | A social media report showed a picture of a couple of hail stones estimated to be the size of golf balls in the Delta community of Wayne County. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | - | Trees were blown down on Rocky Bottom Rd. |
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.
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 Delta | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14690300 | 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 511779. 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.
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.