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Highsplint, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Upper Clover Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40828. It stands on Seagraves Creek. The Survey maps it on the Louellen quadrangle. It stands 1,434 feet above sea level.

Highsplint within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

117 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Highsplint between 1995 and 2020, burning about 17,732 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 32 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 burning43
Arson/incendiarism32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
23 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKARST ROBBINS
17 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2019Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOBSTER BRANCH
20 June 1999Arson/incendiarism66 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 May 2020Debris and open burning19 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBALL CEMETERY RD
3 May 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRIVER RIDGE
22 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highsplint in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 flash 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
April 2000Flash FloodHighsplint-Heavy rains produced flash flooding in several areas around the county. Portions of KY-38 were washed out near Highsplint. Rockslides closed portions of KY-2005 near Pathfork and HWY-421 near Pine Mountain. Several other roads were also closed due to wash-outs or rock slides.

Every storm recorded in Harlan 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
Ridgeway0.5 miles23
Benito0.7 miles23
Gano1.0 miles23
Shields1.3 miles23
Louellen1.7 miles23
Colts1.9 miles23
Black Bottom2.2 miles23
Short Town2.6 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 HighsplintAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5759695The 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 512699. 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.