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Odgen Gap, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hindman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41822. It stands on Owens Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hindman quadrangle.

Odgen Gap within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

315 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 315 fires within 5 miles of Odgen Gap between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,695 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 57 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 burning148
Missing data/not specified/undetermined75
Arson/incendiarism57
Recreation and ceremony26
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Odgen Gap: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Ogden Branch StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Montgomery (historical)1.4 miles16
Tina1.6 miles16
Hindman1.9 miles16
Leburn2.1 miles16
Vest2.5 miles17
Carrie3.1 miles16
Garner3.5 miles16
Soft Shell3.8 miles17

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 Q122559512The 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 509684. 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.