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Pine Top, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Carr Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41843. It stands on Willard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hindman quadrangle. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Pine Top within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

351 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 351 fires within 5 miles of Pine Top between 1997 and 2020, burning about 18,692 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 68 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 burning153
Missing data/not specified/undetermined93
Arson/incendiarism68
Recreation and ceremony27
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
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
9 September 2010Recreation and ceremony9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOVES BRANCH
9 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Top in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2014: 4 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
September 2009Thunderstorm WindPine Top$2,000Trees were blown down on Highway 582 and Route 1393.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindPine Top-A tree was blown down at Pine Top.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPine Top-Trees were blown down on Hwy 582. One of the trees fell onto a vehicle.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPine Top-Trees were downed.

Every storm recorded in Knott 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
Nealy0.8 miles17
May1.0 miles17
Drew1.6 miles17
Spider1.8 miles16
Omaha2.2 miles17
Sylvester (historical)2.3 miles17
Bath2.6 miles18
Middle Carr Creek (historical)3.2 miles18

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 Pine TopAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987573The 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 508824. 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.