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North Irvine, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Irvine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40336. It stands on Sweet Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Irvine quadrangle.

North Irvine within Estill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

164 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of North Irvine between 1994 and 2018, burning about 4,912 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 36 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 burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Arson/incendiarism36
Recreation and ceremony23
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestCHESTNUT STAND
17 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Estill County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of North Irvine: 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Tipton Ridge QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Highway 851 Shalw ExposureClayProspect
Possum Run Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Estill County

Storms near this place

15 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Irvine in 15 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 3 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindNorth Irvine$4,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a storage building.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Irvine$1,000A tree was blown down onto a utility line near 350 Sweet Lick Road just northeast of Irvine.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Irvine$1,000A large tree limb fell on a power line on White Oak Road near Stump and Irvine.
July 2021Flash FloodNorth Irvine$1,000Several inches of water were observed flowing across White Oak Road in Irvine.
July 2021FloodNorth Irvine$1,000John Rawlings Road in Irvine was flooded.
July 2021Flash FloodNorth Irvine$1,000Between roughly 403 and 418 pm, several homes along Geneva Ave in Irvine were damaged by flood waters. Several more homes had water flowing into them. A few water rescues were needed in this area as well.
April 2015Flash FloodNorth Irvine$1,000The intersection of White Oak Rd and Sun Valley was flooded.
April 2015FloodNorth Irvine$1,000Sunrise Valley Rd was flooded.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Irvine-A tree was blown down near 100 Wall Street in North Irvine.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Irvine-A tree was blown down at the entrance of Mountain Crest Apartments north of Irvine.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Irvine-A tree was reported down over Eades Drive north of Irvine.
February 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Irvine-A tree was reported down on Mountain Crest Circle near the intersection with Grindstone Road in North Irvine.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindNorth Irvine-A tree was blown down and onto Hwy 1840.
May 2010FloodNorth Irvine-White Oak Road at John Rollins was flooded.
January 2009HailNorth Irvine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Estill 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
Sweet Lick (historical)0.6 miles12
Irvine1.0 miles12
West Irvine1.1 miles12
Stump (historical)1.1 miles12
Cedar Grove (historical)1.4 miles15
Lower White Oak (historical)1.5 miles12
Old Witt School Neighborhood (historical)1.5 miles12
Calloway Crossing1.5 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122558411The 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 514294. 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.