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Julip, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Williamsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40769. It stands on Deep Branch. The Survey maps it on the Saxton quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Julip within Whitley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

275 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 275 fires within 5 miles of Julip between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,496 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 55 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 burning150
Arson/incendiarism55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined265 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDINK RIDGE
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 August 2007Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 July 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryWOFFORD CEM. RD
1 May 2007Debris and open burning70 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2000Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitley 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 Julip: 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
Louden ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Whitley County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Julip in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 3 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 2021Thunderstorm WindJulip$1,000Pictures on social media show downed tree limbs along with minor damage to a roof near Louden, all caused by strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindJulip-Dispatch reported trees blown down on Kentucky Highway 904 east of Williamsburg.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindJulip-Dispatch reported a tree blown down on Kentucky Highway 92 east of Williamsburg.

Every storm recorded in Whitley 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
Lucky0.5 miles15
Verne1.6 miles15
Suttons Mill (historical)1.9 miles15
Yaden1.9 miles15
Louden Coal Camp (historical)2.0 miles16
Louden2.2 miles16
Dal2.3 miles15
Perkins2.8 miles16

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 JulipAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6309585The 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 513091. 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.