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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.

Fleming-Neon within Letcher County

Population over time

3 figures

Fleming-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.

YearPeople Change
2000840
2010770-70 (-8%)
2020548-222 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

245 since 1997

Regional 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 burning119
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Arson/incendiarism41
Recreation and ceremony27
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOE'S BR #2
29 September 2019Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDUSTY RD.
29 September 2017Arson/incendiarism22 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRHODES BRANCH
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOE'S BR.
23 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher 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
Neon0.4 miles18
Fleming0.4 miles18
Cromona0.6 miles18
Tolliver Town0.8 miles18
Neon Junction1.0 miles18
Haymond1.3 miles18
Hemphill1.6 miles18
Whitaker1.6 miles18

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-NeonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q591014The 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.