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Dobbins, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Isonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41180. It stands on Booth Branch. The Survey maps it on the Willard quadrangle. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

Dobbins within Elliott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

61 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Dobbins between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,215 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
22 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2001Arson/incendiarism50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 1997Arson/incendiarism30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Debris and open burning22 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDOG FOOD
25 April 2001Arson/incendiarism70 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 April 2016Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryEZRA HOWARD RD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elliott County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dobbins in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2010Flash FloodDobbins-KY Hwy 1612 was reported to be flooded and was closed just inside the Carter county line 4 miles east southeast of Bruin.
February 2008FloodDobbins-Three feet of water was on ky highway 863.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Stephens2.2 miles15
Gomez (historical)2.3 miles15
Edsel2.9 miles14
Blaines Trace (historical)2.9 miles14
Fielden3.9 miles14
Bruin5.2 miles9
Halcom5.9 miles14
Culver6.0 miles14

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 DobbinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5286536The 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 507859. 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.

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.