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Estill, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Wayland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41666. It stands on Martin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wayland quadrangle. It stands 935 feet above sea level.

Estill within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

272 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 272 fires within 5 miles of Estill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 13,070 acres in total. None started naturally. 57 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 burning117
Arson/incendiarism57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Recreation and ceremony43
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 1999Arson/incendiarism75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEBB ST
13 September 2019Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCLARKS BR
12 September 2002Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTERRY FORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Estill in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2013Flash FloodEstill$5,000Kentucky Highways 7 and 1086 were closed due to flooding in the Wayland area.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEstill$1,000A large tree was blown down near Punkin Center in Estill. There were also reports of pea size hail and very heavy rainfall.
March 2004HailEstill-Three quarter inch hail fell for 5 to 7 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Glo0.8 miles17
Lackey0.9 miles17
Wayland1.1 miles17
Porter Junction1.2 miles17
Garrett1.7 miles17
West Garrett2.1 miles17
Welco Station2.2 miles17
Dema2.6 miles17

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 EstillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5401366The 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 491820. 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.