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Jeremiah, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Blackey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41826. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Blackey quadrangle. It stands 1,070 feet above sea level.

Jeremiah within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

244 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Jeremiah between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6,566 acres in total. None started naturally. 29 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 burning105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined79
Arson/incendiarism29
Recreation and ceremony24
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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 2007Debris and open burning80 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCARBON GLOW
4 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning90 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELK CREEK
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryEMORY LN.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jeremiah in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2008Thunderstorm WindJeremiah$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and caused damage to roofs and chimneys on homes in the Blair Branch community.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindJeremiah$8,000Numerous large tree limbs up to 5 inches in diameter were blown down. Two chimneys were also blown down from two very old and poorly constructed houses.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindJeremiah$5,000Tree's were blown down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindJeremiah-A tree was blown down along KY-7 near Letcher County Elementary and Middle School.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindJeremiah-Metal roofing material was peeled up on a garage along KY Hwy 7 in Jeremiah.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindJeremiah-Large tree limbs and power lines were blown. Some trees were also uprooted.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindJeremiah-Serveral large limbs were blown down.
June 2008HailJeremiah-no account filed
May 2004Flash FloodJeremiah-no account filed
June 1998HailJeremiah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Letcher 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
Carbon Glow1.5 miles18
Isom2.1 miles18
Letcher2.2 miles18
Hot Spot2.8 miles18
Van3.1 miles17
Little Colly (historical)3.2 miles17
Blackey3.2 miles18
Indian Bottom (historical)3.3 miles18

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 JeremiahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15229511The 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 495225. 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.