Democrat, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Colson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41858. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mayking quadrangle.

Democrat within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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 Mayking quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Mayking quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

253 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Democrat between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8,254 acres in total. None started naturally. 52 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Arson/incendiarism	52
Recreation and ceremony	19
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
9 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOVES BRANCH
9 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RHODES BRANCH
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Deane	1.6 miles	17
Lucastown	1.9 miles	17
Thornton Gap	2.2 miles	17
Polly	2.6 miles	17
Camp Branch (historical)	2.6 miles	17
Colson	2.9 miles	17
Apple Rock (historic)	4.2 miles	18
Thornton	4.3 miles	17

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 Democrat	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19868006	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 507843. 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.