Plank, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ashers Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Moses Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ogle quadrangle. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Plank within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1891 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1954 USGS Ogle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
1979 USGS Ogle quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

311 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 311 fires within 5 miles of Plank between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,048 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 121 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	124
Arson/incendiarism	121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	51
Recreation and ceremony	10
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
28 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	RUG RAT
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 June 2007	Natural	21 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	SPRINGS
24 June 2012	Debris and open burning	28 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	SANDHILL / CLAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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
Botto	1.8 miles	13
Goose Rock	2.7 miles	13
Brightshade	3.8 miles	13
Ogle	4.7 miles	13
Lincoln	5.0 miles	13
Creekville	5.2 miles	13
Marcum	5.2 miles	13
Peabody	5.3 miles	13

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 Plank	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7201312	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 514635. 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.