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Emlyn, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Saxton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40769. It lies near Happy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Williamsburg quadrangle. 417 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Emlyn within Whitley County

Population over time

2 figures

Emlyn fell from 427 to 417 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
2010427
2020417-10 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

134 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Emlyn between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,986 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 37 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 burning59
Arson/incendiarism37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 July 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2001Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 1997Arson/incendiarism45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2010Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitley County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Emlyn: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Cave Creek-Jowl Mt ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Whitley County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emlyn in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindEmlyn$7,000Several trees were blown down along KY 628 and KY 2996 near Emlyn.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindEmlyn$5,000Dispatch reported several trees and powerlines down in and near Williamsburg, including on Kentucky Highway 904 and Verne Road as well as on Highway 25 S. Additionally, a home was damaged on Cane Creek Road south of town.
April 2017FloodEmlyn-A Skywarn spotter observed water about three inches deep flowing over Tackett Creek Road south of Williamsburg.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindEmlyn-Tree down along Route 25.

Every storm recorded in Whitley 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
Savoy1.4 miles15
Balltown1.9 miles15
Pleasant View2.0 miles15
Dal2.7 miles15
Williamsburg2.8 miles15
Bon2.9 miles15
Highland Park3.2 miles15
Yaden3.3 miles15

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 EmlynAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5658625The 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 512067. 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.