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Justell, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Betsy Layne-Stanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41605. It stands on Betsy Layne Branch. The Survey maps it on the Harold quadrangle.

Justell within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

248 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Justell between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,350 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 67 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 burning98
Arson/incendiarism67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Recreation and ceremony28
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBANNER
8 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryIVY CREEK
5 September 2007Debris and open burning23 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryIVY CREEK
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUFFALO
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPRATER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Justell in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2018: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
February 2018FloodJustell$50,000A horse farm was washed out by the flooded Levisa Fork.
August 2014Flash FloodJustell$1,000Flash flooding occurred on Mare Creek Rd.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindJustell-Power lines were blown down along US 23 where it intersects Mare Creek Road.

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Betsy Layne0.4 miles16
Stanville0.7 miles16
Tram1.2 miles16
Harold1.4 miles16
Amba1.9 miles16
Fox Bottom2.1 miles15
Dana2.8 miles16
Ivel2.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122568185The 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 495556. 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.