Nampa, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It lies in ZIP code area 25678. It stands on Blackberry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Matewan quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Nampa within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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.

1887 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1909 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:48000
1917 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1928 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Nampa (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 34,149 acres in total. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	69
Debris and open burning	58
Fireworks	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	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
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	POUNDING MILL
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2007	Other causes	4.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PETERS FORK RD 2
19 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	81 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	TAYLORVILLE #2
18 September 2019	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	MURPHY BRANCH @ VARNEY
13 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	TAYLORVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
McCarr	0.6 miles	24
New Alma Coal Camp (historical)	0.7 miles	24
Buskirk	0.9 miles	24
Freeburn	3.2 miles	24
Ransom	3.3 miles	24
Columbiatown (historical)	3.4 miles	24
Burnwell	3.7 miles	22
Stringtown	3.7 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2107412. 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.