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Ivel, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Betsy Layne-Stanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41642. It stands on Ivy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harold quadrangle. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Ivel within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

230 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Ivel between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6,282 acres in total. None started naturally. 69 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 burning86
Arson/incendiarism69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Recreation and ceremony24
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBANNER
8 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryIVY CREEK
5 September 2007Debris and open burning23 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryIVY CREEK
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUFFALO
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPRATER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd 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 Ivel: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Allen PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ivel in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2008Thunderstorm WindIvel$2,000Two trees were blown down along Highway 23 at a cemetery.
February 2018FloodIvel$1,000Toms Creek was inundated by flood waters.
March 2021HailIvel-Video was posted to social media and shared via WYMT showing hail ranging in size from peas to quarters as the core of the storm moved over the community of Ivel.
February 2019Heavy RainIvel-Heavy rain on the evening of February 23rd ultimately led to a rockslide along U.S. Highway 23 near Ivel. The unstable hillside led to the northbound lanes being shutdown on the 24th as the southbound lanes were reconfigured for two-way traffic.
July 2002HailIvel-Aside from 0.75 inch hail, 1 inch of rain fell within 20 minutes.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tram1.7 miles16
Banner1.8 miles16
Stanville2.2 miles16
Dana2.8 miles16
Justell2.9 miles16
Woods3.2 miles18
New Allen3.3 miles16
Betsy Layne3.3 miles16

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 IvelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690707The 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 508321. 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.