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Horse Branch, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Horse Branch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42349. It stands on Jenny Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rosine quadrangle. It stands 466 feet above sea level.

Horse Branch within Ohio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Horse Branch between 1999 and 2020, burning about 427 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 August 1999Smoking25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Railroad operations and maintenance55 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROCKY CREEK
2 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance17 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2014Arson/incendiarism81 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 62 RAILROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horse Branch in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 1997Thunderstorm WindHorse Branch$500no account filed
March 2009Thunderstorm WindHorse Branch-Minor tree damage was reported by Emergency Manager with winds estimated at 60 mph.
April 2017HailHorse Branch-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ohio 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
White Run2.0 miles11
Renfrow2.8 miles11
Windy Hill2.9 miles11
Rosine3.5 miles11
Dogwalk4.3 miles11
Arnold4.5 miles11
Olaton4.9 miles12
Mount Pleasant5.0 miles11

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 Horse BranchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622287The 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 494566. 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.