Marshal Branch, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Colson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41858. It stands on Daniels Branch. The Survey maps it on the Blackey quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Marshal Branch within Letcher 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
1913 USGS Oven Fork quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Blackey quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Blackey quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

256 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 256 fires within 5 miles of Marshal Branch (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8,283 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 33 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	113
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	79
Arson/incendiarism	33
Recreation and ceremony	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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 2010	Recreation and ceremony	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOVES BRANCH
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher 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
Sackett	0.3 miles	18
Apple Rock (historic)	1.2 miles	18
Isom	1.5 miles	18
Little Colly (historical)	1.7 miles	17
Colson	1.9 miles	17
Tillie	2.2 miles	17
Camp Branch (historical)	2.4 miles	17
Polly	3.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2336158. 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.