Doorway, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Buckhorn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41721. It stands on Meadow Fork. The Survey maps it on the Mistletoe quadrangle. It stands 1,047 feet above sea level.

Doorway within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1891 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Mistletoe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
1979 USGS Mistletoe quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Doorway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,522 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 65 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
Arson/incendiarism	65
Debris and open burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1

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
5 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	ELKHORN FUMBLE
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	WHOOPLAREA 2
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	WHOOPFLAREA
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	4 CORNERS
3 September 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 September 2002	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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
Upper Squabble (historical)	0.6 miles	13
Middle Squabble (historical)	1.9 miles	13
Saul	2.8 miles	14
Lower Leatherwood (historical)	2.8 miles	14
Bowlingtown (historical)	4.7 miles	14
Big Hill (historical)	4.9 miles	14
Buckhorn	4.9 miles	14
Gays Creek	6.3 miles	14

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 Doorway	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5297258	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 511866. 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.