Halo, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Wheelwright-Weeksbury census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41606. It stands on Frozen Fork. The Survey maps it on the Wheelwright quadrangle. It stands 1,188 feet above sea level.

Halo within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Vergie quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Wheelwright quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Wheelwright quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

254 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Halo between 1997 and 2020, burning about 20,589 acres in total. None started naturally. 57 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	105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	58
Arson/incendiarism	57
Recreation and ceremony	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1,500 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	165 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RILEYS BRANCH
22 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd 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
Wheelwright	1.5 miles	19
Weeksbury	2.8 miles	19
Wheelwright Junction	2.8 miles	19
Burton	3.1 miles	19
Melvin	3.4 miles	19
Jacks Creek	3.5 miles	19
Buckingham	3.7 miles	19
Ligon	5.2 miles	19

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 Halo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5643294	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 508165. 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.