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Jeff, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Viper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41751. It stands on Carr Fork. The Survey maps it on the Hazard South quadrangle. 293 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Jeff within Perry County

Population over time

2 figures

Jeff fell from 323 to 293 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010323
2020293-30 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

498 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 498 fires within 5 miles of Jeff between 1993 and 2020, burning about 20,982 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 87 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 burning203
Missing data/not specified/undetermined153
Arson/incendiarism87
Recreation and ceremony39
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural1
Smoking1

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 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2007Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJEFF
29 September 2007Debris and open burning63 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresDaniel Boone National ForestORCHARD
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jeff: 2 prospects. 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
Branch Gap ClayClayProspect
Buffalo Divide ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jeff in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2011: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindJeff$40,000Trees and power lines were blown down between Jeff and Vicco along and near the Hwy 15 corridor causing power outages.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindJeff$30,000Public report of numerous trees and power lines down in Jeff, KY about 6 miles south of Hazard. Also, roof blown off a home in Vicco.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindJeff$2,000Two trees were blown down on Route 7.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindJeff$1,000One tree was blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2011Flash FloodJeff-Both lanes of Hwy 15 were closed at Glomawr due water of an unknown depth flowing across the road.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindJeff-Trees were down.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindJeff-Tree limbs and power lines were down and 1.00 inch hail was reported.
July 2003HailJeff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Viper1.7 miles16
Glomawr1.9 miles16
Happy2.1 miles16
Acup (historical)2.2 miles16
Defiance2.4 miles16
Fourseam2.5 miles16
Diablock2.5 miles16
Christopher2.7 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 JeffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6173177The 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 516758. 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.