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Mikegrady, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Elkhorn City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41522. It lies near Bear Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Elkhorn City quadrangle.

Mikegrady within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

171 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Mikegrady between 1996 and 2020, burning about 10,996 acres in total. None started naturally. 43 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 burning61
Arson/incendiarism43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Recreation and ceremony22
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
3 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHONEY FORK
28 September 2020Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROUTE 80
19 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOHN MOORES BRANCH
26 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 July 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 May 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreVirginia Department of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined210 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDUNLEARY
9 April 2012Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySLICK ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mikegrady in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 debris flow. 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
March 2021Debris FlowMikegrady-A mudslide is blocking the road along KY-1372 at mile marker 3.
May 2018HailMikegrady-A citizen observed ping pong ball sized hail northeast of Elkhorn City.

Every storm 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
Cedarville1.3 miles20
Beaver Creek (historical)2.0 miles20
Honey Fork2.3 miles20
Ferrell (historical)2.4 miles20
Lick Creek2.9 miles19
Beaver Bottom3.1 miles20
Elkhorn City3.2 miles20
Dunleary3.2 miles20

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 Q122554747The 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 508603. 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.

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.