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Dizney, Kentucky

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Harlan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40828. It stands on Bills Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pennington Gap quadrangle. It stands 1,660 feet above sea level.

Dizney within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

100 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Dizney between 1995 and 2020, burning about 10,069 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 30 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 burning35
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
23 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKARST ROBBINS
17 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKILDAV FIR
3 May 2020Debris and open burning19 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBALL CEMETERY RD
3 May 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRIVER RIDGE
7 April 2010Misuse of fire by a minor300 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan 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
Black Mountain1.6 miles24
Kenvir2.2 miles24
Colts2.5 miles23
Redbud2.8 miles24
Short Town2.9 miles23
Highsplint2.9 miles23
Ridgeway3.1 miles23
Shields3.3 miles23

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 DizneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5285085The 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 490935. 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.