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Evanston, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Rousseau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41339. It stands on Vanderpool Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tiptop quadrangle.

Evanston within Breathitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

88 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Evanston between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6,416 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 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
Arson/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2001Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2001Arson/incendiarism30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2001Arson/incendiarism50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2001Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2012Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLYNN LOG B
4 April 2010Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evanston in 1 storm report in 2004: 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
May 2004Flash FloodEvanston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breathitt 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
Lambric5.6 miles14
Lunah7.8 miles14
Wells Fork9.4 miles14
Guage9.5 miles14
Noble10.4 miles15
Rousseau11.1 miles14
Wilstacy11.7 miles14
Stevenson12.5 miles14

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 EvanstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48977208The 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 507958. 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.