Majestic, Kentucky

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.

• 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
• 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Majestic quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
• 2001 USGS Majestic quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Majestic between 1992 and 2019, burning about 10,332 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 50 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Stopover
• Arrow (historical)
• Hurricane (historical)
• Woodman
• Argo
• Camp Creek (historical)

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Majestic in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Pike County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 497460. 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.