Hueysville, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Wayland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41640. It stands on Saltlick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wayland quadrangle. It stands 748 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hueysville within Floyd 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 Wayland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Wayland quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

309 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 309 fires within 5 miles of Hueysville (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,486 acres in total. None started naturally. 62 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	156
Arson/incendiarism	62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55
Recreation and ceremony	35
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2002	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WEBB ST
13 September 2019	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CLARKS BR
12 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd 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
Bosco	0.3 miles	17
Welco Station	0.7 miles	17
West Garrett	0.9 miles	17
Garrett	1.2 miles	17
Midas	1.3 miles	17
Northern	1.7 miles	17
Porter Junction	1.8 miles	17
Lackey	2.0 miles	17

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.

Wikidata item Q136298505

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 2097294. 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.