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Nealy, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Carr Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41843. It stands on Nealy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kite quadrangle.

Nealy within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

330 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 330 fires within 5 miles of Nealy between 1997 and 2020, burning about 17,008 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 67 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 burning146
Missing data/not specified/undetermined82
Arson/incendiarism67
Recreation and ceremony29
Smoking3
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2010Recreation and ceremony9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOVES BRANCH
9 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott 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
May0.3 miles17
Pine Top0.8 miles16
Drew1.0 miles17
Omaha1.3 miles17
Sylvester (historical)2.1 miles17
Spider2.6 miles16
Martinsville (historical)3.1 miles17
Bath3.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509619. 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.