BlockJellico Creek, Kentucky
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Williamsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40769. It stands on Corn Bread Branch. The Survey maps it on the Williamsburg quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1890 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1894 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1952 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
96 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Jellico Creek between 1993 and 2019, burning about 2,810 acres in total. None started naturally. 37 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 37 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | FUSTON |
| 23 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 131 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 May 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | PETER BR HILL |
| 9 April 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | FEATHER CREEK FIRE |
| 7 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jellico Creek in 2 storm reports in 2008: 1 hail, 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelly Knob Camp (historical) | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Bon | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Ayers | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Balltown | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Savoy | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Emlyn | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Redbird | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Williamsburg | 5.5 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2092354. 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.
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.