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Jonancy, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Dorton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41538. It stands on Elswick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dorton quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Jonancy within Pike 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

255 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Jonancy between 1997 and 2020, burning about 34,051 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 47 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 burning101
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Arson/incendiarism47
Recreation and ceremony41
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
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 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONG FORK VEIRGE
6 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySOUTH HERITAGE RD.
21 August 2008Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jonancy in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindJonancy$5,000Powerlines were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts and were on fire on Highway 610.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ellwood0.6 miles18
Long Fork (historical)1.3 miles18
Virgie1.3 miles18
Myra2.0 miles18
Frogtown (historical)2.1 miles18
Hartley2.7 miles19
Dorton2.7 miles18
Lower Long Fork (historical)2.8 miles19

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 JonancyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6271975The 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 508353. 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.