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Kirbyton, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cunningham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42039. The Survey maps it on the Fancy Farm quadrangle.

Kirbyton within Carlisle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Kirbyton between 1998 and 2018, burning about 80 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
30 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Smoking10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Smoking4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 May 1998Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlisle 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 Kirbyton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Mcgary MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Carlisle County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirbyton in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 2 hail, 2 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
February 2018Thunderstorm WindKirbyton$50,000On Highway 307, a couple of small grain bins were destroyed. A trampoline and a playhouse were blown around. The damage occurred in very rural farm country.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindKirbyton$4,000About a half dozen trees fell across roads in the county.
May 2008HailKirbyton-The hail occurred near the intersection of Highways 307 and 121.
May 1998HailKirbyton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlisle 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
Emmaus (historical)1.5 miles9
Sharon (historical)1.8 miles9
Zoar (historical)3.4 miles7
Milburn3.5 miles9
Old Mayfield (historical)4.3 miles10
Cunningham4.8 miles10
Antioch (historical)5.3 miles9
Wilson5.6 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 495790. 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.