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Hi Hat, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the McDowell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41636. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the McDowell quadrangle. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Hi Hat within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

298 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Hi Hat between 1997 and 2020, burning about 19,903 acres in total. None started naturally. 63 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 burning115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined66
Arson/incendiarism63
Recreation and ceremony48
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning396 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning1,500 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined165 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRILEYS BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hi Hat in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindHi Hat-A tree was blown down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHi Hat-Trees downed across HWY 1428.
June 2004HailHi Hat-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Price1.0 miles18
Buckingham1.6 miles19
Jacks Creek1.8 miles19
Burton2.2 miles19
Orkney2.7 miles18
Wheelwright Junction2.7 miles19
Ligon3.3 miles19
Melvin3.4 miles19

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 Hi HatAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5750379The 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 494104. 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.