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Mashfork, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Salyersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41465. It stands on Burton Fork. The Survey maps it on the Salyersville North quadrangle. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Mashfork within Magoffin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

400 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 400 fires within 5 miles of Mashfork between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,307 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 67 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 burning154
Missing data/not specified/undetermined105
Arson/incendiarism67
Recreation and ceremony53
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1
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 2002Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFALCON
25 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJIM ARNETT BRANCH
25 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySKATING RINK HILL
24 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Magoffin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mashfork: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Burning Fork ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Magoffin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mashfork in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2016: 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMashfork-Several trees were blown down on Rt. 460.
May 2013Heavy RainMashfork-A tree and debris were brought down onto Hwy 2020 at Mashfork due to heavy rainfall.
May 2016HailMashfork-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Magoffin 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
Conley1.6 miles17
Falcon2.0 miles15
Burning Fork2.2 miles14
Stringtown2.2 miles15
Painters Lick (historical)2.7 miles17
Cyrus2.9 miles15
Salyersville3.4 miles15
Bradley3.5 miles14

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 MashforkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6783106The 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 508553. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.