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Forkland, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Perryville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40328. It stands on Curtis Branch. The Survey maps it on the Parksville quadrangle.

Forkland within Boyle County

On record in Forkland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Forkland between 1998 and 2019, burning about 238 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2014Debris and open burning52 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMINORS BRANCH
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2002Equipment and vehicle use15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 March 1998Debris and open burning45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELK CAVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyle County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forkland in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2003: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2003Thunderstorm WindForkland-no account filed
June 2001HailForkland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyle 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
Brumfield3.6 miles10
Mitchellsburg3.7 miles10
Aliceton3.7 miles6
Craintown5.3 miles6
Parksville5.6 miles10
Wilsonville6.1 miles10
Perryville6.9 miles11
Alum Springs8.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508024. 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.