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Noetown, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Middlesborough census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40965. It stands on Beans Fork. The Survey maps it on the Fork Ridge quadrangle. It stands 1,194 feet above sea level.

Noetown within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Noetown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,757 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 37 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 burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Arson/incendiarism37
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
7 September 1995Natural1.0 acresCumberland Gap National Historic ParkSTEEL TANK
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOWASH
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMONARCH CHURCH #2
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMONARCH CHURCH #1
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCumberland Gap National Historic ParkTIPRELL R&R
10 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Noetown: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Limestone QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Old Railroad ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Noetown in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2012: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
January 2002Flash FloodNoetown-Kentucky highway 66 was covered with water and threatened several homes.
March 2012HailNoetown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Stony Fork Junction1.0 miles18
Edgewood1.4 miles18
Premier1.5 miles18
Binghamtown2.1 miles25
Middlesboro2.1 miles28
Yellow Creek2.4 miles18
Davis Station (historical)3.6 miles28
Capito4.0 miles18

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 NoetownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7047385The 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 499501. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.