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Gilpin, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42539. It stands on Strong Branch. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Gilpin within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

48 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Gilpin between 1998 and 2014, burning about 842 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
7 April 2013Railroad operations and maintenance41 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTRONG BRANCH
21 April 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2013Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMASSENGALE
2 April 2013Debris and open burning45 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELLIOT
2 April 2013Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFIRE TOWER
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2011Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJONATHAN FORK
8 March 2002Railroad operations and maintenance35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilpin in 2 storm reports in 1999: 2 hail. 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 1999HailGilpin-no account filed
August 1999HailGilpin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Casey 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
Athens0.7 miles7
Cantown1.6 miles7
Poplar Springs (historical)2.3 miles7
Labascus2.9 miles7
Lawhorn Hill3.3 miles8
Pricetown4.3 miles7
Argyle4.5 miles8
Boyle (historical)4.5 miles7

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 GilpinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5562571The 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 508088. 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.