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.
Population over time
2 figuresJeff 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 323 | |
| 2020 | 293 | -30 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1916 USGS Cornettsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Hazard South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Hazard South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Hazard South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
498 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 203 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 153 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 87 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JEFF |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 63 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | ORCHARD |
| 26 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Branch Gap Clay | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Buffalo Divide Shale | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
8 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeff | $40,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down between Jeff and Vicco along and near the Hwy 15 corridor causing power outages. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeff | $30,000 | Public 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeff | $2,000 | Two trees were blown down on Route 7. |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeff | $1,000 | One tree was blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Jeff | - | Both lanes of Hwy 15 were closed at Glomawr due water of an unknown depth flowing across the road. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeff | - | Trees were down. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jeff | - | Tree limbs and power lines were down and 1.00 inch hail was reported. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Jeff | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viper | 1.7 miles | 16 | |
| Glomawr | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Happy | 2.1 miles | 16 | |
| Acup (historical) | 2.2 miles | 16 | |
| Defiance | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Fourseam | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Diablock | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Christopher | 2.7 miles | 16 |
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 Jeff | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6173177 | The 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.







