Morris Fork, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Canoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. It stands on Ingol Fork. The Survey maps it on the Cowcreek quadrangle. It stands 860 feet above sea level.
On record in Morris Fork
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1953 USGS Cowcreek quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Cowcreek quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
137 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Morris Fork between 1995 and 2020, burning about 10,606 acres in total. None started naturally. 40 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 burning | 62 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 40 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | STINGER |
| 24 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BOWLING CREEK RD. |
| 24 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 May 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morris Fork in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Morris Fork | $15,000 | Flash flooding from heavy rains caused part of Morris Fork Road to break off. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morris Fork | $7,500 | Social media report of a small tree down on a barn near the end of Freeman Fork Road in extreme SW Breathitt County. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morris Fork | $3,000 | Trees were blown down in Morris Fork. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morris Fork | - | A tree was blown down on Houston Road near Morris Fork. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Morris Fork | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Morris Fork | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crockettsville | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Dalesburg | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Talbert | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Sebastians Branch | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Houston | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Beech | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Canoe | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Turkey | 6.7 miles | 12 |
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 Morris Fork | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14690979 | The 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 514068. 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.





