Head of Johnson Creek, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Fedscreek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41539. It stands on Pritchett Fork. The Survey maps it on the Lick Creek quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Head of Johnson Creek within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

1886 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1915 USGS Regina quadrangle1:62500
1915 USGS Regina quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Regina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1917 USGS Regina quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Lick Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Lick Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

91 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Head of Johnson Creek (historical) between 1997 and 2019, burning about 9,692 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	18
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
12 September 2002	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 May 2014	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LAYNE BRANCH
5 May 2014	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GRAPEVINE MOUNTAIN
18 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 May 2000	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 1999	Arson/incendiarism	85 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	450 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KIMPER
6 April 1999	Debris and open burning	350 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Simers	1.6 miles	19
Calloway Branch (historical)	3.7 miles	20
McVeigh	3.8 miles	19
Nigh	3.8 miles	19
Kimper	4.2 miles	19
Dunlap	4.2 miles	20
Left Fork of Blackberry (historical)	4.4 miles	24
Biggs	4.5 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2120820. 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.