Hurricane Branch, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Millard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41557. It stands on Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Millard quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hurricane Branch within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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.

1886 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1915 USGS Regina quadrangle1:62500
1915 USGS Regina quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Regina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1917 USGS Regina quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Millard quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Millard quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

132 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Hurricane Branch (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8,878 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined	45
Debris and open burning	43
Arson/incendiarism	23
Recreation and ceremony	16
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOWER POMPEY
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	206 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GRAPEVINE
2 September 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 July 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 May 2014	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LAYNE BRANCH
7 May 2008	Recreation and ceremony	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 May 2014	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GRAPEVINE MOUNTAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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
Jonkan (historical)	0.9 miles	18
Fishtrap (historical)	1.5 miles	18
Upper Pompey (historical)	1.8 miles	18
Phyllis	2.2 miles	19
Lower Pompey (historical)	2.6 miles	18
Woodside	3.4 miles	19
Kimper	4.0 miles	19
Millard	4.0 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2120837. 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.