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Harveyton, 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 41719. It stands on Andy Camp Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hazard North quadrangle. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Harveyton within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

771 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 771 fires within 5 miles of Harveyton between 1997 and 2020, burning about 35,571 acres in total. None started naturally. 168 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 burning269
Missing data/not specified/undetermined246
Arson/incendiarism168
Recreation and ceremony70
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
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
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHERIFFS COURT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harveyton in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHarveyton-A tree was blown down at Lott's Creek.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHarveyton-Trees were blown down on Laurel Fork of Lost Creek.

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
Blue Diamond0.8 miles16
Airport Gardens1.7 miles16
Whitsett (historical)1.8 miles16
Hiner1.8 miles16
Clemons2.0 miles16
Happy Valley (historical)2.0 miles16
Bulan2.1 miles16
Darfork2.1 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 HarveytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690558The 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 493852. 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.