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Leburn, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hindman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41831. It stands on Possumtrot Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hindman quadrangle. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.

Leburn within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

344 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 344 fires within 5 miles of Leburn between 1997 and 2020, burning about 16,396 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 49 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 burning165
Missing data/not specified/undetermined92
Arson/incendiarism49
Recreation and ceremony26
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott 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 Leburn: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ogden Branch StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Knott County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leburn in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLeburn$2,000Two trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts at 4692 Possum Trot Road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLeburn-Law enforcement relayed a report of a small tree blown down on Combs Branch Road east of Hindman.
February 2002HailLeburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knott 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
Hindman1.6 miles16
Garner1.7 miles16
Odgen Gap2.1 miles16
Brinkley2.7 miles16
Montgomery (historical)3.4 miles16
Tina3.5 miles16
Soft Shell3.8 miles17
Carrie4.3 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 LeburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19986751The 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 496139. 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.