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Epworth, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Tollesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41189. It stands on Powderlick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tollesboro quadrangle.

Epworth within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Epworth between 1992 and 2014, burning about 139 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
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
24 June 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestBOAT GUNNEL
8 April 2013Railroad operations and maintenance70 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFITE HOLLOW
6 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2014Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHAPPY HOLLOW
1 April 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBURTONVILL
31 March 2014Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRIFFIN SPUR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Epworth in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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
March 2017Flash FloodEpworth$200,000Extensive flash flooding was reported from Tollesboro to Vanceburg. Water, several feet deep, was flowing across numerous roadways in the area. A bridge was washed out on Quicks Run Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEpworth-A tree was downed on Burtonville Road.
May 2011HailEpworth-no account filed
May 2010HailEpworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Burtonville1.5 miles8
Nashtown3.2 miles11
Tollesboro3.4 miles11
Oak Ridge (historic)5.2 miles8
Glen Springs5.7 miles13
Ribolt5.9 miles11
Oak Ridge (historical)5.9 miles9
Cottageville6.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 491803. 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.