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Kingdom Come, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Blackey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41858. It stands on Cottonpatch Branch. The Survey maps it on the Roxana quadrangle. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Kingdom Come within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

145 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Kingdom Come (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,341 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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 burning75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism20
Recreation and ceremony15
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITCO HIL
22 September 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOWAN
24 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOWAN
23 August 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kingdom Come (historical): 2 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Silica. 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
Gordon Lewis SandpitSilicaProspect
Pine Mountain Gap ShaleClayProspect
Whitesburg Mill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Whitesburg MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Letcher 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
Oscaloosa1.2 miles16
Big Cowan (historical)1.5 miles18
Day1.9 miles18
Ice2.2 miles18
Dongola2.3 miles18
Kings Creek2.7 miles16
Whitco3.1 miles18
Flint3.5 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 Kingdom Come (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6412475The 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 2336138. 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.