Elkins Fork, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mayflower census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41514. It stands on Middle Fork Rockhouse Fork. The Survey maps it on the Varney quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Elkins Fork within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1887 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Varney quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Varney quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

86 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Elkins Fork (historical) between 1998 and 2018, burning about 8,817 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
19 September 2007	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 August 2008	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 July 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2013	Debris and open burning	85 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROCKHOUSE
9 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 1999	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Upper Turkey (historical)	0.5 miles	20
Varney	2.2 miles	20
Tom Ray (historical)	2.7 miles	20
Mouth of Long Fork (historical)	2.8 miles	23
Sydney (historical)	2.8 miles	19
Sidney	2.9 miles	19
Rural	3.8 miles	23
Piso	4.4 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2337544. 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.