Poplar Flat, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Tollesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41179. The Survey maps it on the Tollesboro quadrangle.

Poplar Flat within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1929 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:48000
1929 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:62500
1935 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Tollesboro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

26 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Poplar Flat between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,319 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
Arson/incendiarism	8
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
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
8 April 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	70 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FITE HOLLOW
5 April 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CABIN CREEK
30 April 1997	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	95 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 April 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CABIN CREEK RD
21 April 2014	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HAPPY HOLLOW
2 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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
Ribolt	1.4 miles	11
Herron Hill	1.5 miles	13
Tollesboro	3.7 miles	11
Cottageville	4.3 miles	11
Covedale	4.5 miles	14
Fearisville	4.5 miles	14
Charters	5.0 miles	13
Queens	5.2 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 Poplar Flat	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60785489	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 508853. 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.