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Meathouse, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Williamson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41531. It stands on Stagger Fork. The Survey maps it on the Matewan quadrangle. It stands 1,335 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Meathouse within Pike County

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

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Meathouse (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,033 acres in total. None started naturally. 45 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 burning59
Arson/incendiarism45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Recreation and ceremony14
Fireworks6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2007Other causes4.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBALL FORK
29 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTONE
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPETERS FORK RD 2
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOODY
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOFTIS MANSION

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
Narrows Branch (historical)1.5 miles24
Hardy1.9 miles24
Burnwell2.3 miles22
Sharondale2.3 miles19
Stone2.4 miles19
Huddy2.5 miles19
Stringtown2.6 miles22
McAndrews2.6 miles19

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 Meathouse (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6804319The 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 2336914. 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.