Grassy Branch, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Raccoon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41557. It stands on Grassy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Meta quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Grassy Branch within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

1887 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Meta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Meta quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Meta quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

161 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Grassy Branch (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,531 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 31 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	56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Arson/incendiarism	31
Recreation and ceremony	26
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	98 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	130 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WINN BRANCH
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BILL KING HOLLOW
25 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2007	Debris and open burning	58 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Raccoon	2.1 miles	18
Zebulon	2.2 miles	20
Blackburn Bottom	2.8 miles	20
Bevins Branch (historical)	3.1 miles	20
Meta	3.5 miles	20
Kimper	4.5 miles	19
Upper Chloe (historical)	4.5 miles	18
Lower Chloe (historical)	5.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2337553. 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.