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Jenson, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Pineville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40977. It stands on Elliott Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pineville quadrangle.

Jenson within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

335 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Jenson between 1997 and 2020, burning about 15,319 acres in total. None started naturally. 74 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 burning143
Missing data/not specified/undetermined96
Arson/incendiarism74
Recreation and ceremony13
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTANYARD HILL
6 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell 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 Jenson: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Hana Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

5 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jenson in 5 storm reports between 2022 and 2026: 3 flood, 2 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
January 2026FloodJenson$100KYTC reported at 654 EST that KY-2013 had been closed due to high water.
July 2024Flash FloodJenson-Pictures on social media showed several inches of water flowing over Blanton Branch Road near the communities of Kettle Island and Jenson.
February 2022FloodJenson-KY-2013 was reported blocked due to flood waters in the community of Jenson.
August 2022Flash FloodJenson-Flooding was reported along Highway 221 near the Kettle Island community, causing the road to be blocked in places.
July 2022FloodJenson-Video footage shows Straight Creek flooding onto Old Jensen Road in the community of Jensen.

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Kettle Island1.6 miles18
Kettle Island Coal Camp (historical)1.9 miles18
Straight Creek2.0 miles18
Keenox2.1 miles18
Arjay2.1 miles18
Cary2.2 miles18
Glendon Coal Camp (historical)2.6 miles18
Arjay Coal Camp (historical)2.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 495220. 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.