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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.

Morris Fork within Breathitt County

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 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

137 since 1995

Regional 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 burning62
Arson/incendiarism40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking1

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 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestSTINGER
24 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBOWLING CREEK RD.
24 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2002Flash FloodMorris Fork$15,000Flash flooding from heavy rains caused part of Morris Fork Road to break off.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindMorris Fork$7,500Social media report of a small tree down on a barn near the end of Freeman Fork Road in extreme SW Breathitt County.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindMorris Fork$3,000Trees were blown down in Morris Fork.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMorris Fork-A tree was blown down on Houston Road near Morris Fork.
August 2003HailMorris Fork-no account filed
April 1998HailMorris Fork-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breathitt 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
Crockettsville2.4 miles13
Dalesburg2.9 miles13
Talbert4.1 miles13
Sebastians Branch4.3 miles13
Houston4.4 miles12
Beech4.7 miles14
Canoe5.8 miles13
Turkey6.7 miles12

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 ForkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690979The 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.