Long Fork, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Dorton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41572. It lies near Tackett Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Dorton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Long Fork within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Vergie quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Dorton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Dorton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

269 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Long Fork (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 28,714 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 53 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	102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70
Arson/incendiarism	53
Recreation and ceremony	38
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LONG FORK VEIRGE
6 September 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	396 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SOUTH HERITAGE RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ellwood	1.2 miles	18
Jonancy	1.3 miles	18
Virgie	1.3 miles	18
Wales	2.0 miles	19
Hartley	2.0 miles	19
Turkey Pen (historical)	2.2 miles	19
Lower Long Fork (historical)	2.2 miles	19
Big Card (historical)	2.3 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2337866. 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.