Nolansburg, Kentucky
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Poor Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40870. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Nolansburg quadrangle. It stands 1,289 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 23 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.
- 1887 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
- 1916 USGS Nolansburg quadrangle1:48000
- 1919 USGS Nolansburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Nolansburg quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Middlesboro quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
122 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Nolansburg between 1997 and 2020, burning about 15,359 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 33 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 burning | 47 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LOBSTER BRANCH |
| 15 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 June 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 June 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 66 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 19 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BALL CEMETERY RD |
| 3 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | RIVER RIDGE |
| 22 May 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nolansburg in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2014: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Hail | Nolansburg | - | Quarter size hail was observed near Nolansburg. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nolansburg | - | Two trees down on State Road 522 near mile marker 10. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Nolansburg | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Nolansburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7048238 | 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 514282. 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.
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.









