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Jetts Creek, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Oakdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. It stands on Jetts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tallega quadrangle.

Jetts Creek within Breathitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

242 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Jetts Creek between 1995 and 2020, burning about 12,268 acres in total. None started naturally. 60 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 burning115
Arson/incendiarism60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Recreation and ceremony14
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2

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
8 September 2007Recreation and ceremony33 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2002Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryGRAY HAWK
7 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGHWAY 708
3 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMICK COMBS HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt 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 Jetts Creek: 1 prospect. 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
Mud Tunnel ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jetts Creek in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2013: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Thunderstorm WindJetts Creek-Trees were blown down along Jetts Creek Rd.
March 2012HailJetts Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breathitt 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
Copebranch1.4 miles12
Guerrant2.4 miles14
Turkey2.4 miles12
Oakdale3.9 miles12
Shoulderblade4.0 miles13
Houston4.1 miles12
Chenowee4.3 miles14
Sebastians Branch5.9 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122547554The 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 508343. 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.