Devil Fork, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Sandy Hook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40351. It lies near Doctors Knob. The Survey maps it on the Sandy Hook quadrangle. It stands 968 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Devil Fork within Elliott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS Sandy Hook quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Sandy Hook quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

94 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Devil Fork (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,875 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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	35
Arson/incendiarism	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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 August 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROUTE 7
5 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MOBILE HOM
24 June 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 April 2010	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 April 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2010	Debris and open burning	130 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	B.L. LEWIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elliott 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
Lytten	1.3 miles	10
Spanglin	1.4 miles	10
The Ridge	1.6 miles	10
Wyett	2.1 miles	11
Little Sandy	3.0 miles	10
Fannin Valley (historical)	3.1 miles	8
Bigstone	3.3 miles	10
Faye	3.7 miles	10

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 Devil Fork (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5267293	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 2337149. 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.