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Fedscreek, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Fedscreek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41524. It stands on Feds Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jamboree quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Fedscreek within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

140 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Fedscreek between 1995 and 2020, burning about 10,520 acres in total. None started naturally. 36 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 burning61
Arson/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony16
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
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFEDS CREEK
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremony90 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBIG HACKNEY'S CREEK
12 September 2002Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 1999Arson/incendiarism85 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2011Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLICK CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fedscreek in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail. 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
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFedscreek$30,000There were several trees blown down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFedscreek$10,000Numerous trees were blown down in and around Feds Creek.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindFedscreek$7,000Trees and power lines were blown down on Little Card Road.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindFedscreek$4,000Tree down across house and tree across power lines.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindFedscreek$3,000Pike County dispatch reported a utility line knocked down onto a roof and a power pole blown over in the 3000 block of Fedscreek Road in the community of Fedscreek.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindFedscreek$500Multiple trees and power lines were reported down in the community of Fedscreek.
May 2025HailFedscreek-The Pike County EM sent in a reported of a measured 2.0 inch hailstone in the Fedscreek community.
June 2016HailFedscreek-A report of quarter size hail was received via social media in Fedscreek.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindFedscreek-Trees were blown down, blocking U.S. Route 460.
July 2000HailFedscreek-Nickel to quarter size hail observed for ten minutes at Fedscreek Grocery Store.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindFedscreek-Several trees blown down.
June 2012HailFedscreek-no account filed
May 2003HailFedscreek-no account filed
March 2001HailFedscreek-no account filed
June 1998HailFedscreek-no account filed

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
Motley (historical)1.2 miles20
Mouthcard1.4 miles19
Dunlap1.7 miles20
Biggs1.8 miles19
Nigh2.3 miles19
Toonerville2.4 miles22
Hackney Creek (historical)2.5 miles22
Lick Creek3.2 miles19

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 FedscreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5441140The 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 492016. 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.