Hurricane, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Phelps census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41568. It lies near Malen Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hurley quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hurricane within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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
1914 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:62500
1917 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Hurricane (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 9,988 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 43 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	55
Arson/incendiarism	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	1
Natural	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 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BOARDTREE II
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WOODMAN CREEK RD.
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HURRICANE CREEK
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	46 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FERRELL ROAD
3 May 1999	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Virginia Department of Forestry	not named
1 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

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
Argo	1.1 miles	20
Camp Creek (historical)	1.5 miles	20
Stopover	1.7 miles	23
Woodman	2.5 miles	23
Majestic	3.0 miles	23
Jamboree	3.2 miles	20
Arrow (historical)	3.8 miles	24
Phelps	4.1 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2120836. 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.