BlockHeflin, Kentucky
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Heflin-Beda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42347. It stands on Toms Branch. The Survey maps it on the Utica quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Sutherland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Utica quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Heflin between 1998 and 2020, burning about 195 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 June 2000 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 April 1998 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 March 2020 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SMOKING FIRE |
| 16 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heflin in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heflin | $15,000 | A law enforcement official reported trees down on power lines on Highway 136. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heflin | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at nearly 70 mph by law enforcement caused unspecified structural damages. |
| April 2026 | Tornado (EF0) | Heflin | - | A tornado briefly touched down and affected all trees in sparsely populated locations of western Ohio County. The tornado touched down just south of Locks Road and did tree damage along a nearly 2 mile track through the Rough River Valley. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beda | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| No Creek | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Buford | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Matanzas | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Coffman | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Centertown | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Point Pleasant | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Pleasant Ridge | 6.4 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508217. 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.