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Indian Creek Neighborhood, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Cowcreek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41364. It stands on Stringtown Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cowcreek quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Indian Creek Neighborhood within Owsley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

208 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Indian Creek Neighborhood (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 9,850 acres in total. None started naturally. 58 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 burning114
Arson/incendiarism58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBISHOPS BEND II
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestSTINGER
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism54 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBISHOPS BEND
21 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER WOLF CREEK
7 July 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryINDIAN CREEK
12 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 May 2007Debris and open burning18 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley 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 Indian Creek Neighborhood (historical): 1 prospect. None of them still produces. 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
Crane Fork Valley ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Owsley 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
Ricetown0.1 miles12
Hogg Neighborhood (historical)1.4 miles14
Sebastian2.1 miles13
Southfork2.6 miles14
Arnett3.2 miles12
Lucky Fork3.3 miles13
Cowcreek3.4 miles12
Conkling3.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2416587. 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.