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Pebworth, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Booneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. The Survey maps it on the Beattyville quadrangle. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Pebworth within Owsley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

398 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 398 fires within 5 miles of Pebworth between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6,263 acres in total. None started naturally. 69 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 burning176
Missing data/not specified/undetermined117
Arson/incendiarism69
Recreation and ceremony31
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITE ASH
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACK GAP
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITE ASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pebworth in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2001Thunderstorm WindPebworth$6,000A roof was blown off of a barn. Farm outbuildings were damaged and numerous trees were down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPebworth$3,000A few trees were blown down in Pebworth.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindPebworth$2,000Portable metal one car garage lifted and deposited on Cherry Lane 75 feet from original location.
May 2016Flash FloodPebworth$1,000Dispatch and local media sent in reports of water flowing over Highway 11 and around buildings in and south of Pebworth. Road closures were reported for Spivey Road, Jug Road, Marcum Ridge Road, Highway 11 north at Pebworth, and the right hand fork of Buffalo.
September 2014Flash FloodPebworth$1,000A creek was out of its banks along Highway 11 flooding several outbuildings.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPebworth-The public reported multiple trees blown down or snapped in the vicinity of Holland Lane and Fox Hunters Knob.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindPebworth-Large trees were blown down.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindPebworth-Two trees were blown down on KY 11 near the Lee county line.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPebworth-Trees were blown down on Hwy 11 North.
May 2009Flash FloodPebworth-The rescue of trapped residents in the town of Levi was ongoing.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindPebworth-Several trees down off Route 11.
August 2000HailPebworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owsley 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
Pleasant Neighborhood (historical)0.9 miles14
Levi1.7 miles14
Fish Creek Neighborhood (historical)2.9 miles13
Elk Lick Neighborhood (historical)2.9 miles14
Needmore Neighborhood (historical)3.3 miles14
Vincent3.4 miles14
Scoville3.5 miles14
Booneville3.5 miles14

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 PebworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7158598The 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 514474. 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.