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Falling Branch, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Short Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40119. It stands on Cave Creek. The Survey maps it on the McDaniels quadrangle.

Falling Branch within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Falling Branch between 1999 and 2017, burning about 149 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
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTICK RIDGE
30 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBLAINE HILL
25 September 1999Smoking11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySAND KNOB CHURCH FIRE
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryRAFFO VILLA
10 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined59 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Fentress McMahan0.7 miles12
Hickory Corner2.0 miles11
Concord3.1 miles12
Indian Valley3.3 miles12
Short Creek4.8 miles12
Duff5.4 miles12
Tousey6.2 miles11
Hites Falls6.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507974. 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.