Diablock, Kentucky
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hazard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41701. It stands on Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hazard South quadrangle. 409 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 915 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDiablock fell from 453 to 409 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 453 | |
| 2020 | 409 | -44 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1916 USGS Cornettsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Hazard South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Hazard South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Hazard South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
518 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 518 fires within 5 miles of Diablock between 1993 and 2020, burning about 21,809 acres in total. None started naturally. 100 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 | 172 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 171 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 100 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 56 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | STIDHAM LN |
| 6 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 56 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JEFF |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 63 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Diablock: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Branch Gap Clay | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Buffalo Divide Shale | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diablock in 2 storm reports in 2019: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2019 | Heavy Rain | Diablock | - | The Department of Highways reported that heavy rain later resulted in a mudslide along Kentucky Highway 451 near the community of Christopher. |
| February 2019 | Heavy Rain | Diablock | - | The Department of Highways reported that heavy rain once again resulted in a mudslide along Kentucky Highway 451 near the community of Christopher. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher | 0.4 miles | 16 | |
| Fourseam | 0.6 miles | 16 | |
| Glomawr | 0.8 miles | 16 | |
| Lothair | 1.0 miles | 16 | |
| Woodland Park | 1.3 miles | 16 | |
| Hazard | 1.8 miles | 16 | |
| Jeff | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Walkertown | 2.6 miles | 16 |
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 Diablock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5270177 | 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 511803. 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.







