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Eversole, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Booneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. It stands on Bear Run. The Survey maps it on the Booneville quadrangle.

Eversole within Owsley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

372 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 372 fires within 5 miles of Eversole between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,430 acres in total. None started naturally. 79 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 burning180
Missing data/not specified/undetermined97
Arson/incendiarism79
Recreation and ceremony14
Smoking2

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
8 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER WOLF CREEK
19 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Eversole: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crane Fork Valley ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Owsley County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eversole in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 flood, 2 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
July 2022Flash FloodEversole-Water was reported flowing over the road along Bear Run near the community of Eversole.
June 2021Flash FloodEversole-Sugar Camp Road was impassable due to water flowing over it.
February 2019FloodEversole-Local media reported flooding on Kentucky Highway 2024 south of Eversole.
January 2010FloodEversole-Backwater flooding from the south fork of the Kentucky River caused Highways 2024 and 3347 to be closed.

Every storm recorded in Owsley 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
Chestnut Neighborhood (historical)1.1 miles14
Chestnut Gap1.1 miles14
Sugar Camp Neighborhood (historical)1.6 miles14
Cowcreek1.8 miles12
Southfork2.5 miles14
Hogg Neighborhood (historical)2.6 miles14
Booneville2.6 miles14
Lerose2.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 512101. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.