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Hatfield, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Sidney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41514. It stands on Low Gap Fork. The Survey maps it on the Williamson quadrangle. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

Hatfield within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Hatfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,217 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 39 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 burning79
Arson/incendiarism39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony16
Fireworks5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
26 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2008Debris and open burning327 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 1714 CANEY
21 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 2001Natural22 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryCOLEMAN BR.
6 May 2008Debris and open burning140 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFROG POND
2 May 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 May 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryBUFFALO CREEK AT COIN FORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hatfield in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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
August 2005Flash FloodHatfield$10,000A mobile home 9 feet above Lick Fork had water inside. Lick Fork Road was flooded with cars floating down highway.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHatfield-Trees and limbs were blown down onto KY-468 in the Hatfield community.
March 2021FloodHatfield-KY Highway 468 in and around the Hatfield community is covered by water.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindHatfield-Dispatch reported a tree was blown down onto a power line near Hatfield Station.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHatfield-Law Enforcement observed a tree blown down near Hatfield.
May 2016HailHatfield-A citizen observed quarter size hail near Hatfield Station.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Rural1.5 miles23
Mouth of Long Fork (historical)2.5 miles23
Slatter Branch (historical)3.9 miles23
Turkey Creek4.9 miles23
Elkins Fork (historical)4.9 miles20
Upper Turkey (historical)5.3 miles20
South Williamson5.8 miles23
New Camp6.2 miles23

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 HatfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5681342The 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 508204. 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.