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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.

Pippa Passes within Knott County

Population over time

2 figures

Pippa 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.

YearPeople Change
2010533
2020468-65 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

311 since 1997

Regional 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 burning120
Missing data/not specified/undetermined86
Arson/incendiarism66
Recreation and ceremony29
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
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 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2021FloodPippa Passes-Water is inundating June Buchanan School and other portions of the Alice Lloyd College Campus in the Pippa Passes community.
June 2017Flash FloodPippa Passes-Broadcast media relayed a report and pictures of water flowing over a rural road near Pippa Passes.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPippa Passes-The Department of Highways reported trees down just south of Pippa Passes.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPippa Passes-A tree was blown down on Hwy 899 in Pippa Passes.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindPippa Passes-Trees were reported down on Hwy 1697.
March 2012HailPippa Passes-no account filed
May 2002HailPippa Passes-no account filed

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
Hollybush1.2 miles17
Sylvester (historical)2.2 miles17
Garner3.2 miles16
Drew3.5 miles17
Larkslane3.5 miles17
Kite3.9 miles17
Nealy4.2 miles17
Pine Top4.3 miles16

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 PassesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3182031The 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.