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Mary Helen, Kentucky

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Cawood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40818. It stands on Left Fork Turtle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harlan quadrangle. It stands 1,358 feet above sea level.

Mary Helen within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

173 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Mary Helen between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8,884 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 30 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 burning76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism30
Recreation and ceremony19
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPINE BRANCH FIRE
27 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKILDAV FIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan 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
Lenarue0.8 miles25
Chevrolet1.1 miles25
Farmers Mill1.5 miles25
Bobs Creek1.6 miles24
Cawood2.4 miles24
Ten Spot2.9 miles24
Verda3.1 miles24
Ages3.1 miles24

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 Mary HelenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6779753The 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 497642. 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.