Gapville, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Royalton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41465. It stands on Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ivyton quadrangle. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Gapville within Magoffin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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.

1886 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1915 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:62500
1915 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:48000
1918 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Ivyton quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Ivyton quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Ivyton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

237 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Gapville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,470 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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	124
Arson/incendiarism	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Recreation and ceremony	26
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIG LICK
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2008	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2008	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2008	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RT 114
6 June 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Magoffin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Galdia	1.6 miles	16
Fredville	1.7 miles	17
Gypsy	2.3 miles	16
Arthurmabel	2.5 miles	17
Swampton	3.4 miles	14
Marshallville	3.7 miles	16
Waldo	3.9 miles	17
Duco	4.0 miles	14

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 Gapville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5521798	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 508065. 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.