Hollybush, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Beaver Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41844. It stands on Left Fork Holly Bush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kite quadrangle. It stands 978 feet above sea level.

Hollybush within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1912 USGS Hindman quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Hindman quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Kite quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Kite quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

285 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 285 fires within 5 miles of Hollybush between 1997 and 2020, burning about 21,642 acres in total. None started naturally. 65 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	110
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	73
Arson/incendiarism	65
Recreation and ceremony	27
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott 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
Pippa Passes	1.2 miles	17
Sylvester (historical)	2.5 miles	17
Kite	2.8 miles	17
Drew	3.6 miles	17
Larkslane	3.6 miles	17
Martinsville (historical)	4.1 miles	17
Puncheon	4.1 miles	17
Garner	4.1 miles	16

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 Hollybush	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5882359	The 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 508267. 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.