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Denver, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Oil Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41222. It stands on Lower Twin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Paintsville quadrangle. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Denver within Johnson County

On record in Denver

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

198 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Denver between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,159 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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 burning64
Arson/incendiarism49
Recreation and ceremony42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOLEMAN BRANCH
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning170 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMIDDLE FORK
4 September 2007Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2019Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBARBER BRANCH III
20 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBARBER BRANCH II
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBARBER BRANCH
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWARD BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Denver: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica. 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
East Point RoadcutClayProspect
Stffordsville Sandstone RoadcutSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denver in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
February 2019Heavy RainDenver$10,000A local media outlet reported recent heavy rainfall being responsible for multiple waterline breaks across the county, including in Paintsville.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindDenver$3,000Trees and power lines were downed.
July 2017Flash FloodDenver$1,000A motorist was rescued from a vehicle near Denver that had become stranded in flood waters.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindDenver-A tree was blown down in Denver.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDenver-Large limb was blown down along Little Lick Fork off of Route 1750.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindDenver-Several trees down on Upper Twin Branch Road.

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Collista1.7 miles17
Leander1.8 miles17
Asa2.7 miles17
Dobson2.9 miles16
Hagerhill3.3 miles17
Swamp Branch3.5 miles16
Paintsville3.7 miles17
Staffordsville3.8 miles17

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 DenverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5259656The 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 507848. 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.