Delvinta, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Southwest Lee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41311. It stands on Elkhorn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Heidelberg quadrangle. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Delvinta within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1892 USGS Beattyville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1952 USGS Heidelberg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

280 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Delvinta between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,515 acres in total. None started naturally. 67 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	126
Arson/incendiarism	67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	66
Recreation and ceremony	16
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WHITE ASH
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JACK GAP
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	WILD DOG
24 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	QUILLEN ROAD
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HIGHWAY 11 SOUTH
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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
Ida May	2.0 miles	11
Cressmont	2.1 miles	11
Heidelberg	3.8 miles	11
Yellow Rock	4.9 miles	11
White Ash	4.9 miles	13
Belle Point	4.9 miles	13
Arvel	5.0 miles	13
Congleton	5.4 miles	13

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 Delvinta	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5254955	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 511780. 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.