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Pigeonroost, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sibert-Hima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Johnson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hima quadrangle. It stands 886 feet above sea level.

Pigeonroost within Clay 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

519 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 519 fires within 5 miles of Pigeonroost between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,810 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 170 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 burning205
Arson/incendiarism170
Missing data/not specified/undetermined109
Recreation and ceremony30
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1
Natural1

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
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOOKER BRANCH
24 September 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2007Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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 Pigeonroost: 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
Highway 11 RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pigeonroost in 16 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPigeonroost$10,000Numerous trees were blown down along Horse Creek Road.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPigeonroost$5,000Trees were blown down and onto power lines in the Paw Paw community.
March 2015FloodPigeonroost$1,000Curry Branch Rd was flooded.
July 2015FloodPigeonroost$1,000Roots Branch Road was closed due to flooding.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPigeonroost$1,000A tree was blown down and across Roots Rd 1 mile north of Pigeonroost.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPigeonroost$1,000A tree was blown down and across Reynolds Rd in Pigeonroost.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPigeonroost$1,000A tree was blown down and across Whites Branch Rd 4 miles southwest of Pigeonroost.
May 2020Flash FloodPigeonroost$200Dispatch relayed a report of flowing water over Reynolds Road near Horse Creek.
May 2020Flash FloodPigeonroost$100Dispatch reported water flowing over House Branch Road near Kentucky Highway 80 outside of Pigeonroost.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPigeonroost-Several trees were downed in the Curry Branch Road and KY-80 area, southwest of Manchester.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPigeonroost-Trees were blown down in the Horse Creek Community.
February 2021FloodPigeonroost-Old Hwy 80 is flooded across both lanes near the Pigeonroost community, and is impassable.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindPigeonroost-A tree was blown down on Curry Branch Rd.
September 2012FloodPigeonroost-Standing water over Sally Branch Rd caused the road to be closed.
April 2011HailPigeonroost-The hail was the size of quarters.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindPigeonroost-Several trees down on Curry Road and East Highway 80.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Sibert1.7 miles13
Hima2.0 miles13
Hooker2.1 miles13
Park Valley (historical)3.0 miles13
Bluehole3.2 miles13
Cottongim3.3 miles13
Upper Horse Creek (historical)3.4 miles13
Collins Station (historical)3.4 miles13

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 PigeonroostAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7193355The 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 514554. 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.