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Hutch, Kentucky

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Middlesborough census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40965. It stands on Devils Garden Branch. The Survey maps it on the Varilla quadrangle. It stands 1,214 feet above sea level.

Hutch within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 27 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

105 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Hutch between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,331 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 19 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 1995Natural1.0 acresCumberland Gap National Historic ParkSTEEL TANK
27 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOWASH
18 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCumberland Gap National Historic ParkTIPRELL R&R
21 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCumberland Gap National Historic ParkROUTE58#2
17 August 1999Natural242 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell 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 Hutch: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Mayfield MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hutch in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
November 2007Thunderstorm WindHutch$1,000One tree was blown down near Highway 217. Reported by Bell County dispatch. Time was estimated from radar.

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Colmar1.9 miles25
Meldrum4.0 miles25
Ferndale4.6 miles25
Davis Station (historical)4.7 miles28
Ponza4.9 miles25
Calvin4.9 miles27
Binghamtown5.4 miles25
Middlesboro5.8 miles28

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 HutchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690675The 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 494856. 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.

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.