Hollyhill, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pine Knot census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40769. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hollyhill quadrangle.

Hollyhill within McCreary County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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 Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1894 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Hollyhill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Hollyhill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Hollyhill between 1992 and 2017, burning about 4,260 acres in total. None started naturally. 80 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/incendiarism	80
Debris and open burning	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	131 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	CIGARETTE
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 June 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	AT IT AGAIN
9 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	206 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	DUCK RUN POND
5 May 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	55

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCreary County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hollyhill in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 6 flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 1996	Flash Flood	Hollyhill	$10,000	no account filed
February 2020	Flash Flood	Hollyhill	$5,000	Dispatch reported several roads with water rushing over them along Osborn Creek and near Hollyhill. This includes Granny Holt Knob being closed to traffic.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollyhill	$4,000	Trees were blown down onto Oscar Morgan Road at Highway 1470 by wind gusts estimated at 61 mph.
February 2018	Flood	Hollyhill	$1,000	A portion of Highway 92 was closed due to high water.
March 2015	Flood	Hollyhill	$1,000	Granny Holt Rd was closed due flooding from Osborne Creek.
December 2015	Flood	Hollyhill	$1,000	Osborn and Marsh Creeks were out of their banks.
November 2010	Flood	Hollyhill	$1,000	Marsh Creek is out of its banks.
February 2020	Flood	Hollyhill	$200	A trained spotter observed water from Osborn Creek flooding fields and covering Granny Holt Knob Road near Hollyhill.
July 2016	Flood	Hollyhill	$100	A trained spotter reported water four to five inches deep covering Kentucky Highway 92 near Hollyhill.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollyhill	-	A trained spotter reported numerous trees down on their property.
March 2021	Hail	Hollyhill	-	A trained spotter reported getting hail just SW of the Hollyhill community, stating that some hail may have been slightly larger than a half dollar.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Hollyhill	-	Dispatch reported water from Osborn Creek flowing across roadways east of Strunk and Pine Knot.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollyhill	-	A trained spotter observed trees blown down near Hollyhill.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollyhill	-	A tree was down across Highway 92 at Holly Hill and Wolfe Ridge.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollyhill	-	Two trees were blown down on Hwy 1673.
June 2011	Heavy Rain	Hollyhill	-	An inch of rain fell in Hollyhill.
May 2009	Hail	Hollyhill	-	Large hail covered the ground in Hollyhill.
May 2009	Hail	Hollyhill	-	Large hail fell for over 10 minutes in Hollyhill.
June 2007	Hail	Hollyhill	-	Hail occurred from 445 PM to 500 PM.

Every storm recorded in McCreary 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
Creekmore	3.2 miles	16
Gilreath	3.9 miles	16
Pine Knot	5.8 miles	16
Strunk	6.2 miles	16
Revelo	7.6 miles	16
Stearns	8.2 miles	16
Hickory Grove	8.3 miles	16
Whitley City	8.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 512755. 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.