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Dunham, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Jenkins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41537. It stands on Grays Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jenkins West quadrangle. It stands 1,594 feet above sea level.

Dunham within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

229 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Dunham between 1996 and 2020, burning about 10,470 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 50 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 burning93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Arson/incendiarism50
Recreation and ceremony27
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2007Debris and open burning65 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOE'S BR #2
29 September 2019Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDUSTY RD.
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOE'S BR.
27 September 2007Recreation and ceremony132 acresGeorge Washington & Jefferson National ForestsTUCKER GAP
26 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorge Washington & Jefferson National ForestsLAUREL FORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dunham: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jenkins MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Number 1 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Number 1 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Letcher County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunham in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindDunham-Trees were blown down near Jenkins.
February 2011FloodDunham-Some minor street flooding was still occurring in Jenkins.

Every storm recorded in Letcher 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
Potters Fork1.4 miles18
Jenkins1.4 miles18
McRoberts1.8 miles18
Gaskill2.0 miles19
Haymond2.2 miles18
East Jenkins2.3 miles19
Payne Gap2.5 miles18
Burdine2.6 miles19

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 DunhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5315239The 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 491314. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.