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Fixer, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Beattyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41397. It stands on Zachariah Fork. The Survey maps it on the Zachariah quadrangle. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Fixer within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

152 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Fixer between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,922 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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 burning58
Arson/incendiarism32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony23
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 52 WEST #2
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFIXER
21 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning200 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fixer in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2009FloodFixer$100,000A 40 to 50 foot section of one lane of Hwy 498 collapsed and dropped over the embankment next to the roadway resulting in the closure of the road.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindFixer-One tree down.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Zoe1.8 miles13
Greeley1.8 miles12
Fincastle4.3 miles13
Mount Olive4.4 miles13
Old Landing5.5 miles12
Pinnacle6.6 miles11
Airedale6.7 miles13
Maloney7.0 miles13

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 FixerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5456386The 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 512178. 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.