Elkfork, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Elkfork-Ophir census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Muddy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lenox quadrangle. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Elkfork within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1889 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1950 USGS Lenox quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Lenox quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Lenox quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

100 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Elkfork between 1997 and 2019, burning about 2,725 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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	49
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
7 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2017	Debris and open burning	174 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RT 437
8 April 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2012	Debris and open burning	43 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHOP BRANC
6 April 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GRAY BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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
Middle Fork (historical)	1.8 miles	16
Jeptha	2.3 miles	16
Crockett	2.7 miles	16
Elamton	2.7 miles	14
Lenox	3.7 miles	14
Rush Branch (historical)	3.9 miles	14
Dingus	4.2 miles	16
Caskey Settement (historical)	4.3 miles	14

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 Elkfork	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5364217	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 507922. 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.