BlockDorena, Kentucky
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Nancy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42642. It stands on State Branch. The Survey maps it on the Eli quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Eli quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Eli quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Dorena between 2000 and 2016, burning about 255 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BROWN RIDGE |
| 17 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 205 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | KING TOWN# 2 |
| 10 April 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 March 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GRIDER FIRE |
| 10 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507868. 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.