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Pee Vee, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Madisonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42431. The Survey maps it on the Madisonville West quadrangle. It stands 446 feet above sea level.

Pee Vee within Hopkins County

On record in Pee Vee

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

8 surveys from 14 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

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Pee Vee between 1998 and 2017, burning about 338 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryB & K SAWMILL
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLABOR
20 August 2007Debris and open burning74 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined114 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBIRDS NEST
23 July 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined43 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBURNT BUZZ
24 May 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryEARLINGTON
8 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pee Vee in 1 storm report in 2012: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2012Thunderstorm WindPee Vee$40,000A roof was blown off a garage. A metal frame structure was damaged. Two outbuildings were blown onto U.S. Highway 41. Six mature trees were blown down on the south end of Madisonville.

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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 View (historical)1.3 miles14
Brentwood1.6 miles14
Hecla1.7 miles14
Oriole1.7 miles14
Victoria1.7 miles14
Wesco1.8 miles14
Dozier Heights1.9 miles14
West Side Heights2.3 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.

Wikidata item Q14691104The 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 508792. 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.