Dorthae, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the North Corbin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40701. It stands on Little Laurel River. The Survey maps it on the Corbin quadrangle.

Dorthae within Laurel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1890 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1894 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:24000
1970 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

76 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Dorthae between 1994 and 2019, burning about 533 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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	33
Recreation and ceremony	15
Arson/incendiarism	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
27 August 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	BEGLEY
19 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	3 SISTERS
19 August 2008	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	LAUREL BRIDGE
28 June 2012	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SCOTTS ROA
25 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SAND HILL
25 June 2012	Recreation and ceremony	7.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	SCOTT
7 May 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	PICNIC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurel 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
Hopewell	0.7 miles	17
Camp Grounds	2.3 miles	17
North Corbin	2.3 miles	17
Lily	2.7 miles	14
Keavy	3.1 miles	14
McHargue	4.7 miles	14
Pine Grove	5.0 miles	14
Vox	5.0 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.

Wikidata item Q122597591

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 511869. 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.