BlockMouth of Bear, Kentucky
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Louisa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41129. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Prichard quadrangle. It stands 531 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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 25 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.
- 1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
- 1911 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:48000
- 1913 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Prichard quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Prichard quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
107 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Mouth of Bear (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,967 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 49 |
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2002 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | CENTERVILLE RD |
| 23 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 August 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 May 1992 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | LOCK HILL |
| 9 April 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 April 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | DAVIS BRANCH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockville (historical) | 0.0 miles | 25 | |
| Buchanan | 0.1 miles | 25 | |
| Zelda | 3.3 miles | 25 | |
| Greenwood (historical) | 4.7 miles | 25 | |
| Fullers | 5.3 miles | 24 | |
| Stringtown | 5.6 miles | 24 | |
| Fallsburg | 5.8 miles | 24 | |
| Potters (historical) | 6.2 miles | 24 |
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 Mouth of Bear (historical) | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6926333 | 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 2337450. 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.