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Hooker, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sibert-Hima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Urban Fork. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle. It stands 978 feet above sea level.

Hooker within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

508 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 508 fires within 5 miles of Hooker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,628 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 161 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 burning206
Arson/incendiarism161
Missing data/not specified/undetermined105
Recreation and ceremony31
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1
Natural1

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
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKINCAID
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOOKER BRANCH
24 September 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOWN BRANCH
15 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hooker: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Highway 11 RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Urban1.6 miles13
Pigeonroost2.1 miles13
Gray Fork (historical)2.4 miles13
Sibert2.7 miles13
Hima3.2 miles13
Lebanon (historical)3.7 miles13
Pleasant Valley (historical)3.8 miles13
Flatwoods (historical)3.9 miles13

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 HookerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5898032The 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 512767. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.