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Little Dixie, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Pikeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41501. It stands on Hoopwood Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pikeville quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Little Dixie within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

271 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Little Dixie between 1997 and 2020, burning about 13,218 acres in total. None 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 burning103
Missing data/not specified/undetermined79
Arson/incendiarism49
Recreation and ceremony36
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2007Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMARION BRANCH
7 September 2007Recreation and ceremony90 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2008Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBILL KING HOLLOW
30 September 2007Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning175 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRAYS BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Dixie in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 4 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLittle Dixie-Reports on social media showed downed trees along Island Creek Road in Pike County, southwest of Pikeville.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLittle Dixie-Trees were reported down near the intersection of Island Creek Road (KY-1426) and Hoopwood Branch Road, west of Pikeville.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLittle Dixie-Two large trees were snapped at the base by thunderstorm wind gusts at consecutive properties along Cedar Creek Road in Pikeville. The locations along the road were not given.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindLittle Dixie-Trees were blown down.
April 2011HailLittle Dixie-The hail was the size of quarters.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Titan Siding1.8 miles18
Mayo Village2.0 miles18
Pigeon2.1 miles18
Yorktown2.2 miles18
Pikeville2.5 miles18
Kewanee2.6 miles18
Harrolds Branch (historical)2.6 miles18
Pauley2.6 miles18

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 Little DixieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15242496The 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 509806. 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.