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Ellwood, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Dorton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41572. It stands on Adkins Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dorton quadrangle.

Ellwood within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

261 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Ellwood between 1997 and 2020, burning about 33,789 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 53 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 burning95
Missing data/not specified/undetermined68
Arson/incendiarism53
Recreation and ceremony39
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONG FORK VEIRGE
6 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySOUTH HERITAGE RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellwood in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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 2022Flash FloodEllwood-Swiftly flowing water from the Left Fork of Caney Creek was flowing across KY-611 making it impassable. A video on social media showed traffic backed up on either side of the flooded roadway unable to cross and waiting for the water to recede.
February 2019Heavy RainEllwood-A trained spotter observed a rock slide on Kentucky Highway 610 in Jonancy due to recent persistent rainfall.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEllwood-Trees were blown down.

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
Jonancy0.6 miles18
Virgie0.7 miles18
Long Fork (historical)1.2 miles18
Frogtown (historical)1.5 miles18
Penny2.6 miles18
Myra2.7 miles18
Hartley3.0 miles19
Big Card (historical)3.1 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 491725. 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.