Piso, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mayflower census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41571. It stands on Big Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Varney quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Piso within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

1887 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Varney quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Varney quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

74 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Piso between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,116 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	16
Recreation and ceremony	9

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
29 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JOHN'S CREEK ELEM. SCHOOL
1 July 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 1997	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOWER JOHNS CREEK#2
7 April 2010	Debris and open burning	185 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIG BRANCH
6 April 1999	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 1999	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lowe (historical)	2.3 miles	16
Varney	2.3 miles	20
Heenon	2.4 miles	20
Tom Ray (historical)	2.9 miles	20
CC Maynards Settlement (historical)	3.2 miles	16
Sycamore (historical)	3.6 miles	16
Upper Turkey (historical)	3.9 miles	20
Joes Creek (historical)	4.1 miles	15

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 Piso	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18388758	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 508829. 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.