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Hall, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Beaver Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41828. It stands on Isaac Fork. The Survey maps it on the Kite quadrangle.

Hall within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

287 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 287 fires within 5 miles of Hall between 1997 and 2020, burning about 19,454 acres in total. None started naturally. 71 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 burning124
Arson/incendiarism71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined62
Recreation and ceremony28
Smoking1
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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2017Arson/incendiarism22 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRHODES BRANCH
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hall in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 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
March 2001HailHall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knott 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
Puncheon1.0 miles17
Dry Creek1.8 miles17
Martinsville (historical)2.3 miles17
Kite2.3 miles17
Omaha4.1 miles17
Drew4.8 miles17
Hollybush5.1 miles17
Sylvester (historical)5.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508162. 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.