BlockKings Creek, 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 Fugate Branch. The Survey maps it on the Roxana quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1913 USGS Oven Fork quadrangle1:48000
- 1915 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Roxana quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
87 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Kings Creek between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6,982 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning | 45 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 31 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | COWAN |
| 24 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | COWAN |
| 21 June 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 May 2007 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 700 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kings Creek in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2005: 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2002 | Heavy Rain | Kings Creek | $10,000 | A home under construction at Ratcliff Branch was knocked off of its foundation from a mudslide. |
| August 2005 | Hail | Kings Creek | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flint | 1.0 miles | 16 | |
| Kingdom Come (historical) | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Big Cowan (historical) | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Partridge | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Linefork | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Line Fork (historical) | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Oscaloosa | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Day | 3.9 miles | 18 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508391. 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.