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Mouth of Little Sextons Creek, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Burning Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40983. It stands on Little Sexton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maulden quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mouth of Little Sextons Creek within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

249 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Mouth of Little Sextons Creek (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,758 acres in total. None started naturally. 69 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 burning113
Arson/incendiarism69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Recreation and ceremony13
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 August 1999Smoking25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 June 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestMYSTERY
4 May 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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
Alger1.4 miles13
Sextons Creek1.4 miles13
Felty2.7 miles13
Chestnutburg2.9 miles13
Vine4.4 miles13
Trixie4.8 miles13
Ammie4.9 miles13
Teges5.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2543159. 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.