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Pellyton, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Casey Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. It stands on Short Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dunnville quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Pellyton within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

42 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Pellyton between 1998 and 2019, burning about 605 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
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
21 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOOPER RIDGE ROAD
30 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2001Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHUNTING HILLS
25 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 April 2001Smoking10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair 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 Pellyton: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Neatsville ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pellyton in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2006: 2 tornado. 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 1998Tornado (F2)Pellyton$300,000no account filed
January 2006Tornado (F1)Pellyton$75,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adair 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
Barnett Springs2.1 miles9
Neatsville2.4 miles10
Eunice2.8 miles9
Wethington (historical)3.9 miles10
Dunbar Hill4.6 miles10
Millerfield (historical)4.7 miles9
Ella4.8 miles10
Casey Creek5.7 miles9

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 PellytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7161616The 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 508795. 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.

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.