Lower Long Fork, Kentucky

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

Lower Long Fork within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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 Wheelwright quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Wheelwright quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

241 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Lower Long Fork (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 24,324 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 46 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	104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	48
Arson/incendiarism	46
Recreation and ceremony	40
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	396 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

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
Hartley	0.2 miles	19
Harley (historical)	0.8 miles	19
Turkey Pen (historical)	1.2 miles	19
Wales	1.9 miles	19
Long Fork (historical)	2.2 miles	18
Marshall Branch (historical)	2.2 miles	19
Myra	2.3 miles	18
Osborne Fork (historical)	2.7 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2336893. 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.