Paw Paw, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It lies in ZIP code area 41553. It stands on Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hurley quadrangle.

Paw Paw within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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.

1886 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:62500
1917 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

144 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Paw Paw between 1995 and 2020, burning about 10,783 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 55 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
Arson/incendiarism	55
Debris and open burning	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	2

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
6 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HURRICANE CREEK
13 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Virginia Department of Forestry	not named
6 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Virginia Department of Forestry	not named
3 May 1999	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Virginia Department of Forestry	not named
1 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2008	Debris and open burning	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2010	Debris and open burning	95 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paw Paw in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Paw Paw	-	Several trees were blown down along Junction 194.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Camp Creek (historical)	2.9 miles	20
Argo	3.9 miles	20
Hurricane (historical)	4.3 miles	20
Jamboree	4.4 miles	20
Coleman	4.9 miles	20
Stopover	5.5 miles	23
Phelps	5.6 miles	24
Motley (historical)	6.3 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 500279. 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.