Lead Branch, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Krypton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41754. It stands on Lead Branch. The Survey maps it on the Krypton quadrangle. It stands 801 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.

Lead Branch within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1913 USGS Buckhorn quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Krypton quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Krypton quadrangle1:24000
1972 USGS Krypton quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

423 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 423 fires within 5 miles of Lead Branch (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 18,922 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 94 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	178
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	119
Arson/incendiarism	94
Recreation and ceremony	27
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	289 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BARWICK
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Krypton	0.7 miles	13
Napfor	1.9 miles	13
Chavies	2.0 miles	13
Red Hill (historical)	2.2 miles	13
Dunraven	2.5 miles	13
Campbell (historical)	2.7 miles	13
Lamont	2.7 miles	13
Manuel	3.1 miles	13

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 Q6508352

The 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 2557330. 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.