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Mavity, Kentucky

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Cannonsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41129. It stands on Ellington Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boltsfork quadrangle.

Mavity within Boyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

107 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Mavity between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,115 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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 burning29
Recreation and ceremony26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism17
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Smoking1

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
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELIZABETH COURT
21 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 June 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 May 2018Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUCK HAVEN
3 May 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOLLINS ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mavity: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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
Clinton Shale MineClayPast Producer
Princess Mine Big RunClayProducer

Every working recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mavity in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 flood, 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2024Thunderstorm WindMavity$5,000A healthy seventy foot pine tree fell onto a home near Cannonsburg along KY 180.
June 1998Flash FloodMavity$5,000Road flooding from the East Fork of the Little Sandy occurred.
August 2006Flash FloodMavity$3,000Bear Creek flooded. Some precautionary evacuations were done. Also, Lockwood Estates near Route 23 had water problems.
September 2006FloodMavity$2,000Rains of 2 to 2.5 inches fell in over 12 hours causing small streams to flood in the western portion of the county. Rush Creek and Trace Creek flooded fields and roads. No damage to homes was reported.
February 2022FloodMavity$1,000High water occurred over the intersection of Trace Road and Four Mile Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMavity$1,000Large branches were blown down along Route 3.
January 2022Flash FloodMavity$500A portion of Trace Road was closed due to flooding.
February 2025FloodMavity-Flooding was observed near Rush on Walker Lane, Four Mile Road, Big Run Trace, Old Trace Road, and Mary Lane.
April 2025FloodMavity-Flooding was observed on Bear Creek Road.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMavity-Trees fell down along Route 3.

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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
Trace (historical)1.8 miles21
Cannonsburg3.0 miles22
Chadwick Creek (historical)3.6 miles22
Princess3.8 miles22
Garner3.9 miles21
Cloverdale (historical)4.0 miles21
Coalton4.1 miles15
Big Sandy (historical)4.4 miles21

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.

Wikidata item Q122552695The 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 508563. 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.