Hackney Creek, Kentucky

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Fedscreek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41548. It lies near Pigeonroost Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Harman quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hackney Creek within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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 Grundy quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:62500
1917 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Harman quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Harman quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

154 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Hackney Creek (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 10,587 acres in total. None started naturally. 52 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	59
Arson/incendiarism	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Recreation and ceremony	14
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FEDS CREEK
6 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIG HACKNEY'S CREEK
10 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Virginia Department of Forestry	not named
4 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Virginia Department of Forestry	not named
26 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 May 2008	Smoking	10 acres	Virginia Department of Forestry	not named
5 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 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
Toonerville	0.4 miles	22
Mouthcard	1.9 miles	19
Motley (historical)	2.5 miles	20
Fedscreek	2.5 miles	20
Lick Creek	4.0 miles	19
Dunlap	4.1 miles	20
Biggs	4.3 miles	19
Nigh	4.8 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2337561. 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.