Pippa Passes, Kentucky
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hindman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41844. It stands on Trace Fork. The Survey maps it on the Kite quadrangle. 468 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 991 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPippa Passes fell from 533 to 468 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 533 | |
| 2020 | 468 | -65 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1912 USGS Hindman quadrangle1:48000
- 1915 USGS Hindman quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Kite quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Kite quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
311 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 311 fires within 5 miles of Pippa Passes between 1997 and 2020, burning about 21,439 acres in total. None started naturally. 66 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 burning | 120 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 86 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 66 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 29 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pippa Passes in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2021 | Flood | Pippa Passes | - | Water is inundating June Buchanan School and other portions of the Alice Lloyd College Campus in the Pippa Passes community. |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Pippa Passes | - | Broadcast media relayed a report and pictures of water flowing over a rural road near Pippa Passes. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pippa Passes | - | The Department of Highways reported trees down just south of Pippa Passes. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pippa Passes | - | A tree was blown down on Hwy 899 in Pippa Passes. |
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pippa Passes | - | Trees were reported down on Hwy 1697. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Pippa Passes | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Pippa Passes | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Pippa Passes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3182031 | The 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 500757. 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.








