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Piggville, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Clay City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40312. It stands on Thorpe Branch. The Survey maps it on the Clay City quadrangle. It stands 748 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Piggville within Powell County

On record in Piggville

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

6 surveys from 12 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

80 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Piggville (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 738 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning25
Recreation and ceremony18
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHARLIE LANE
24 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 August 2002Debris and open burning21 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 June 2007Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Powell County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Piggville (historical): 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
213 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Drake 01ClayProducer

Every working recorded in Powell 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
Clay City0.7 miles12
Old Clay City Road (historical)1.4 miles12
Waltersville1.5 miles12
Paint Creek (historical)1.9 miles12
Black Creek (historical)2.1 miles12
Powell Valley2.2 miles12
Morris Creek (historical)2.6 miles12
Virden2.8 miles12

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 Piggville (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7193376The 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 2420715. 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.