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Freeburn, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Phelps census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41528. It stands on Peter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Matewan quadrangle. 296 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Freeburn within Pike County

Population over time

2 figures

Freeburn fell from 399 to 296 between 2010 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
2010399
2020296-103 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

205 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Freeburn between 1992 and 2019, burning about 29,231 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 61 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 burning72
Arson/incendiarism61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Fireworks23
Recreation and ceremony9
Other causes2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2010Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBOARDTREE II
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOUNDING MILL
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Other causes4.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPETERS FORK RD 2
21 September 2010Debris and open burning46 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFERRELL ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freeburn in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 3 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 2024Thunderstorm WindFreeburn-Pike County dispatch reported a tree down across railroad tracks adjacent to KY-194, near South Johnson Bottom Road just outside the community of Freeburn.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindFreeburn-County highway department reported a tree blown down in the Freeburn community.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindFreeburn-Two trees were blown down on State Route 194.

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
Board Tree2.1 miles24
Arrow (historical)2.3 miles24
Ransom2.5 miles24
Columbiatown (historical)2.5 miles24
New Alma Coal Camp (historical)2.8 miles24
Majestic3.1 miles23
Nampa (historical)3.2 miles24
McCarr3.5 miles24

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 FreeburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5500385The 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 492497. 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.