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Enoch, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the St. Helens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41311. It stands on Pawpaw Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beattyville quadrangle. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Enoch within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

376 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 376 fires within 5 miles of Enoch between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,104 acres in total. None started naturally. 75 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 burning141
Missing data/not specified/undetermined115
Arson/incendiarism75
Recreation and ceremony37
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITE ASH
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACK GAP
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITE ASH
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGHWAY 11 SOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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
Lower Buffalo1.3 miles13
Congleton2.3 miles13
Beattyville2.6 miles13
Maloney2.7 miles13
Proctor2.7 miles13
Saint Helens3.1 miles13
White Ash3.4 miles13
Lone3.9 miles12

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 EnochAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5379261The 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 512077. 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.