Phyllis, Kentucky

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.

• Hatfield-McCoy Feud Historic Districtlisted 1976 · 0.4 miles away

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
• 1915 USGS Regina quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Regina quadrangle1:48000
• 1916 USGS Regina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1917 USGS Regina quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Lick Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
• 1978 USGS Lick Creek quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Phyllis between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,635 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Jonkan (historical)
• Hurricane Branch (historical)
• Upper Pompey (historical)
• Fishtrap (historical)
• Kimper
• Lower Pompey (historical)

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phyllis in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2013: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Pike County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 500552. 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.