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Hardburly, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hazard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41722. It stands on Ground Hog Branch. The Survey maps it on the Carrie quadrangle. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.

Hardburly within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

557 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 557 fires within 5 miles of Hardburly between 1997 and 2020, burning about 20,188 acres in total. None started naturally. 110 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 burning220
Missing data/not specified/undetermined162
Arson/incendiarism110
Recreation and ceremony52
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTIDHAM LN
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined56 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning148 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hardburly in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 flash flood. 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
June 2003Flash FloodHardburly-One foot of water was flowing over the road at Jakes Creek Branch. One residence was evacuated.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Tribbey1.1 miles16
Grigsby1.3 miles16
Bulan2.2 miles16
Dwarf2.3 miles16
Hiner2.4 miles16
Whitsett (historical)2.4 miles16
Upper Pidgeonroost (historical)3.4 miles16
Hilton3.5 miles16

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 HardburlyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5655721The 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 493716. 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.