Hallie, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Blackey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41821. It stands on Saltlick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tilford quadrangle. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Hallie within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1916 USGS Cornettsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Tilford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

147 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Hallie between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,582 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 29 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	64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Arson/incendiarism	29
Recreation and ceremony	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	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
23 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ELK CREEK
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 August 2014	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FORT BRANCH
31 May 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	127 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2013	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIG BRANCH TOLSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher 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
Banks	1.2 miles	14
Turkey Creek (historical)	2.2 miles	14
Ulvah	2.4 miles	16
Skyline	2.8 miles	16
Indian Bottom (historical)	3.3 miles	18
Blackey	3.4 miles	18
Defeated Creek	3.8 miles	16
Roxana	3.8 miles	16

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 Hallie	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15222634	The 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 512527. 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.