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McCarr, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the McCarr census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41544. It stands on Coon Branch. The Survey maps it on the Matewan quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

McCarr within Pike County

Population over time

2 figures

McCarr fell from 164 to 158 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010164
2020158-6 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of McCarr between 1992 and 2019, burning about 35,150 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 71 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
Arson/incendiarism71
Debris and open burning58
Fireworks36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Smoking1
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 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOUNDING MILL
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Other causes4.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPETERS FORK RD 2
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism81 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryTAYLORVILLE #2
18 September 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryMURPHY BRANCH @ VARNEY
13 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryTAYLORVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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
Buskirk0.6 miles24
Nampa (historical)0.6 miles24
New Alma Coal Camp (historical)0.7 miles24
Burnwell3.1 miles22
Stringtown3.1 miles22
Ransom3.2 miles24
Meathouse (historical)3.2 miles24
Columbiatown (historical)3.3 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 McCarrAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6007943The 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 508573. 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.