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Gullett, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the West Magoffin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41465. It stands on Gullett Branch. The Survey maps it on the Seitz quadrangle.

Gullett within Magoffin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

303 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 303 fires within 5 miles of Gullett between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,148 acres in total. None started naturally. 37 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 burning138
Missing data/not specified/undetermined73
Recreation and ceremony44
Arson/incendiarism37
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2002Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMIDDLE PUNCHEON
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPARKWAY
19 August 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Magoffin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gullett in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 heavy rain. 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
February 2019Heavy RainGullett$50,000The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet reported heavy rainfall causing a rockslide, forcing the closure of Mountain Parkway west of Salyersville near mile marker 66. The road reopened early on the morning of the 24th.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gifford1.4 miles15
Hendricks2.1 miles14
Stella2.1 miles13
Ova2.5 miles13
Kernie2.6 miles12
Fritz2.8 miles13
Elsie2.9 miles12
Dixie (historical)2.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508146. 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.