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Maloney, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Beattyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41311. It stands on Puncheon Branch. The Survey maps it on the Beattyville quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Maloney within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

284 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Maloney between 1995 and 2020, burning about 3,503 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 59 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 burning96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined84
Arson/incendiarism59
Recreation and ceremony35
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITE ASH
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITE ASH
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGHWAY 11 SOUTH
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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
Saint Helens1.5 miles13
Beattyville1.9 miles13
Proctor2.2 miles13
Airedale2.3 miles13
Enoch2.7 miles13
Congleton3.1 miles13
Mount Olive3.7 miles13
White Ash3.7 miles13

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 MaloneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690894The 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 513765. 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.