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Hode, Kentucky

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Warfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41267. It stands on Little Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Webb quadrangle. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Hode within Martin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

356 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 356 fires within 5 miles of Hode between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,424 acres in total. None started naturally. 195 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
Arson/incendiarism195
Debris and open burning94
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Other causes5
Fireworks4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryLITTLE BILLY'S BR
25 September 1999Debris and open burning20 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryOLD KERMIT GRADE SCHOOL
22 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning3.1 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryMARROWBONE JUNCTION
12 September 2002Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 2008Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryWARFIELD C

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hode in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHode$1,000Trees were blown down onto power lines in the community of Hode.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHode-A tree was blown down on Little Elk off Hode Road.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindHode-A tree was blown down in Hode.

Every storm recorded in Martin 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
Warfield2.9 miles26
Beauty3.2 miles26
Lovely4.3 miles26
West Lovely (historical)4.5 miles26
Pilgrim6.0 miles26
Inez6.1 miles16
Job6.6 miles17
Castle (historical)6.9 miles17

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 HodeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690620The 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 508260. 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.