Fleming-Neon, Kentucky
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Jenkins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41840. It stands on Yonts Fork. The Survey maps it on the Jenkins West quadrangle. 548 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,391 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresFleming-Neon fell from 840 to 548 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 840 | |
| 2010 | 770 | -70 (-8%) |
| 2020 | 548 | -222 (-29%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1912 USGS Pound quadrangle1:48000
- 1912 USGS Pound quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Pound quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Jenkins West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Jenkins West quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
245 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Fleming-Neon between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,335 acres in total. None started naturally. 41 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 burning | 119 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 53 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 41 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 27 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JOE'S BR #2 |
| 29 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DUSTY RD. |
| 29 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 22 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | RHODES BRANCH |
| 28 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JOE'S BR. |
| 23 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neon | 0.4 miles | 18 | |
| Fleming | 0.4 miles | 18 | |
| Cromona | 0.6 miles | 18 | |
| Tolliver Town | 0.8 miles | 18 | |
| Neon Junction | 1.0 miles | 18 | |
| Haymond | 1.3 miles | 18 | |
| Hemphill | 1.6 miles | 18 | |
| Whitaker | 1.6 miles | 18 |
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 Fleming-Neon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q591014 | The 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 1681811. 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.









