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Elkhorn City, 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 stands on Elkhorn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elkhorn City quadrangle. 1,035 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Elkhorn City within Pike County

On record in Elkhorn City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Elkhorn City grew from 982 to 1,035 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010982
20201,035+53 (+5%)

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

222 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Elkhorn City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 13,345 acres in total. None started naturally. 61 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 burning68
Arson/incendiarism61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Recreation and ceremony27
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2

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
28 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreVirginia Department of Forestrynot named
24 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreVirginia Department of Forestrynot named
26 July 2017Other causesunder an acreVirginia Department of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Elkhorn City: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Elkhorn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Johnson MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elkhorn City in 2 storm reports in 1995: 2 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
June 1995Thunderstorm WindElkhorn City$5,000Numerous windows damaged and some minor roof damage was noted. Also, at least 35 trees were blown down. Report was from Elkhorn City Fire Department.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindElkhorn City-Police reported several trees blocking roads.

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
Federal0.7 miles20
Beaver Bottom0.9 miles20
Senterville (historical)1.0 miles20
Beaver Creek (historical)1.3 miles20
Dunleary1.3 miles20
Cedarville1.9 miles20
Kettlecamp (historical)2.4 miles19
Belcher2.9 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 Elkhorn CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2554894The 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 491688. 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.