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Durbin, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Catlettsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41129. It stands on Left Fork Durbin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burnaugh quadrangle. It stands 551 feet above sea level.

Durbin within Boyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Durbin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,681 acres in total. None started naturally. 46 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/incendiarism46
Debris and open burning34
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
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
9 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryCENTERVILLE RD
30 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 May 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryTOMS CREEK ROAD
3 May 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryRICE BRANCH ROAD
2 May 1992Debris and open burning15 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryLOCK HILL
9 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITES CREEK
9 April 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryBUFFALO CREEK RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durbin in 1 storm report in 1997: 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
August 1997Thunderstorm WindDurbin$2,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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
Burnaugh1.6 miles23
Durbin-Burnaugh (historical)1.6 miles23
Kavanaugh1.9 miles23
Lockwood2.2 miles23
Big Sandy (historical)3.6 miles21
Whites Creek (historical)4.3 miles23
Savage Branch4.5 miles23
Boltsfork5.5 miles21

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 DurbinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5316315The 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 507893. 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.

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.