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Dunleary, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Elkhorn City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41522. It lies in Dunleary Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Elkhorn City quadrangle. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

Dunleary within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

241 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Dunleary between 1994 and 2020, burning about 15,708 acres in total. None started naturally. 57 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 burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Arson/incendiarism57
Recreation and ceremony31
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
7 September 1995Other causes8.0 acresVirginia Department of Forestrynot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHONEY FORK
28 September 2020Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROUTE 80
19 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOHN MOORES BRANCH
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 July 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRUSHY BRANCH
17 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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 Dunleary: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Roadcut ShaleClayUnknown
Elkhorn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Johnson MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunleary in 1 storm report in 2024: 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDunleary-A tree was downed onto KY-80 between the Solid Waste Department and Ferrells Creek Road (US-460).

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Beaver Bottom0.4 miles20
Federal0.5 miles20
Elkhorn City1.3 miles20
Beaver Creek (historical)1.3 miles20
Senterville (historical)1.6 miles20
Belcher1.7 miles20
Ferrell (historical)2.1 miles20
Honey Fork2.1 miles20

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 DunlearyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5315427The 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 507892. 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.