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Pinnacle, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Beattyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41311. The Survey maps it on the Heidelberg quadrangle.

Pinnacle within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

144 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Pinnacle between 1997 and 2019, burning about 4,654 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 35 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 burning54
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Recreation and ceremony16
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
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
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 52 WEST #2
1 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestHALE RIDGE #1
27 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2008Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 May 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Pinnacle: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Yellow Rock Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinnacle in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 flash flood. 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
April 2005Flash FloodPinnacle-Highway 52 was closed and impassable due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Old Landing1.2 miles12
Willow Shoals2.1 miles11
Yellow Rock3.5 miles11
Mount Olive4.6 miles13
Heidelberg5.0 miles11
Greeley5.1 miles12
Belle Point5.5 miles13
White Ash6.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 514614. 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.