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Esco, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Robinson Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41501. It stands on Caney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dorton quadrangle. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Esco 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

291 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 291 fires within 5 miles of Esco between 1997 and 2020, burning about 26,947 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 59 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 burning100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Arson/incendiarism59
Recreation and ceremony46
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2008Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2010Debris and open burning60 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRED CEDAR
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Recreation and ceremony120 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUCKFIELD
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Esco in 1 storm report in 2018: 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
April 2018Thunderstorm WindEsco-A mesonet station south of Pikeville recorded a thunderstorm wind gust of 70 mph. Farther north, the roof of a Subway restaurant in Shelby was blown off by thunderstorm winds.

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
Penny0.8 miles18
Douglas1.0 miles18
Robinson Creek1.6 miles18
Upper Little Creek (historical)1.9 miles18
Frogtown (historical)2.0 miles18
Yeager2.3 miles18
Virgie2.7 miles18
Bear Fork (historical)2.7 miles18

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 EscoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5397305The 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 507947. 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.