Potters, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Louisa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41230. It stands on Lambert Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fallsburg quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Potters within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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.

1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
1911 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:48000
1913 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1939 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Fallsburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Fallsburg quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Potters (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,305 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 54 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	61
Arson/incendiarism	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Recreation and ceremony	12
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Natural	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
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	TUG RIVER RD.
23 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Fullers	0.9 miles	24
Stringtown	2.0 miles	24
Greenwood (historical)	2.0 miles	25
Fallsburg	2.1 miles	24
Five Forks	2.1 miles	24
Yatesville	2.4 miles	24
Deephole (historical)	3.1 miles	23
Zelda	3.3 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2121013. 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.