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Millstone, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Jenkins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41838. It stands on Millstone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mayking quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,240 feet above sea level.

Millstone within Letcher County

Population over time

2 figures

Millstone fell from 117 to 92 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
2010117
202092-25 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

207 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Millstone between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6,486 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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 burning96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Arson/incendiarism27
Recreation and ceremony21
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2017Arson/incendiarism22 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRHODES BRANCH
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 July 2007Debris and open burning250 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBOTTOM FORK
5 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryNEON HAYMOND
4 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOMET DRIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millstone in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2018Flash FloodMillstone$80,000Dispatch and local media reported several instances of flash flooding from near Fish Pond Lake to Fleming-Neon and Whitaker. This included portions of Kentucky Highway 3406 being closed, along with several other local roads. Just southeast of Tolliver Town and near Payne Gap, a couple of culverts were displaced due to swiftly flowing flood waters. Three people had to be rescued from their vehicles after they became inundated by water, while four homes were flooded.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindMillstone$3,000Strong winds blew down trees and power lines.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindMillstone-A tree was blown down in Thornton.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMillstone-A four inch diameter tree was blown down on Route 805.
April 2014HailMillstone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Letcher 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
Craftsville (historical)0.9 miles17
Kona1.0 miles18
Farraday1.0 miles17
Seco1.1 miles18
Thornton1.5 miles17
Whitaker1.6 miles18
Sergent1.7 miles17
Neon Junction2.2 miles18

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 MillstoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6016565The 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 498382. 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.