BlockLeft Fork of Blackberry, Kentucky
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the McCarr census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41558. It stands on Seng Camp Branch. The Survey maps it on the Matewan quadrangle. It stands 1,053 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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 24 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.
- 1887 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1909 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:48000
- 1915 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:48000
- 1917 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1928 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
140 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Left Fork of Blackberry (historical) between 1997 and 2019, burning about 14,623 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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 | 69 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BOARDTREE II |
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | POUNDING MILL |
| 5 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BALL FORK |
| 28 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | STONE |
| 28 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PETERS FORK RD 2 |
| 12 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | TUG FORK RIVER |
| 5 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 29 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | POUNDING MILL #2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calloway Branch (historical) | 2.0 miles | 20 | |
| Board Tree | 2.6 miles | 24 | |
| McVeigh | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Columbiatown (historical) | 2.9 miles | 24 | |
| Ransom | 3.0 miles | 24 | |
| Phelps | 3.1 miles | 24 | |
| Coleman | 3.3 miles | 20 | |
| Pinsonfork | 3.6 miles | 19 |
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 Q6516851 | 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 2337851. 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.