Joes Creek, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mayflower census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41501. It stands on Lick Fork. The Survey maps it on the Broad Bottom quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Joes Creek within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1886 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Laynesville quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Harold quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Broad Bottom quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Broad Bottom quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Broad Bottom quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

87 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Joes Creek (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,518 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Arson/incendiarism	17
Recreation and ceremony	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	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
29 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JOHN'S CREEK ELEM. SCHOOL
3 May 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2012	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KNOB FORK
9 April 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOWER JOHNS CREEK#2
5 April 1999	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PINSON BR.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Miller Creek (historical)	0.8 miles	15
Sycamore (historical)	3.4 miles	16
Meta	3.8 miles	20
Gulnare	3.8 miles	16
Piso	4.1 miles	20
Zebulon	4.1 miles	20
Lowe (historical)	4.8 miles	16
Blackburn Bottom	5.0 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2337441. 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.