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Pauley, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Pikeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41501. It stands on Ratliff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pikeville quadrangle. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Pauley within Pike County

On record in Pauley

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

193 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Pauley between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,208 acres in total. None 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 burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Arson/incendiarism36
Recreation and ceremony32
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMARION BRANCH
7 September 2007Recreation and ceremony90 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2008Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBILL KING HOLLOW
25 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pauley in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2021Flash FloodPauley$20,000Stone Coal Road, near the Coal Run Village in northern Pikeville, is blocked by high water. One car was reported to have vanished beneath the deep water. Other cars are stranded.
August 2020Heavy RainPauley-A report came in on social media showing an automated weather station and rain gauge that had measured 3.95 inches of rain during the heavy rain event. It was also noted that of that amount, 3.5 inches had fallen in the first 1 hour.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindPauley-An awning was blown down and a flag pole was blown over at the Pikeville High School.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPauley-Two trees were blown down on Island Creek road near Pigeon.
April 2011HailPauley-There were car and home windows broken.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Keel Addition (historical)0.3 miles18
Pikeville1.4 miles18
Coal Run Village1.8 miles15
Lower Chloe (historical)1.9 miles18
Big Shoal (historical)2.0 miles15
Stanley Addition2.2 miles15
Titan Siding2.3 miles18
Harrolds Branch (historical)2.3 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 PauleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7154862The 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 500273. 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.