Porter, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mousie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41839. It stands on Motts Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wayland quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Porter within Knott County

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.

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 Wayland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Wayland quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

242 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Porter (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,778 acres in total. None started naturally. 57 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	106
Arson/incendiarism	57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Recreation and ceremony	33
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	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 1999	Arson/incendiarism	75 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WEBB ST
13 September 2019	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CLARKS BR
19 August 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TERRY FORK
18 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Betty	1.0 miles	17
Mousie	2.2 miles	17
Rock Fork (historical)	2.4 miles	17
Bolyn	2.6 miles	17
Handshoe	3.1 miles	17
Raven	4.0 miles	17
Larkslane	4.4 miles	17
Soft Shell	5.4 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2337653. 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.