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Justiceville, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Millard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41501. It stands on Greasy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Millard quadrangle.

Justiceville within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

225 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Justiceville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,851 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 burning77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined66
Arson/incendiarism47
Recreation and ceremony31
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMARION BRANCH
6 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOWER POMPEY
4 September 2008Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHELBY YARD
22 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2007Natural2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Recreation and ceremony120 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUCKFIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Justiceville: 1 prospect, 1 unknown. 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
Highway 80 RoadcutClayProspect
Roadcut ShaleClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Justiceville in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 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 2023Thunderstorm WindJusticeville-Per social media pictures, large limbs were blown down onto US-460 near the Greasy Creek Road intersection and bridge.
July 2010Flash FloodJusticeville-A house was being flooded at 1622 Bigs Branch in Millard. The local Fire Dept had been dispatched to the location to evaluate the situation.
July 2010Flash FloodJusticeville-The following creeks in the Millard area were out their banks and causing flooding as of 9 pm: Powells Creek, Jimmies Creek, Bigs Branch Creek, Harles Creek, and Marrowbone Creek.

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
Sutton0.3 miles18
Lower Greasy Creek (historical)0.4 miles18
Axtell (historical)0.7 miles18
Levisa Junction0.7 miles18
Millard0.8 miles18
Nelse0.9 miles18
Liberty (historical)0.9 miles18
Garden Village0.9 miles18

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 Q122588445The 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 495558. 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.