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Providence, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Barbourville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40906. It stands on Smokey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barbourville quadrangle.

Providence within Knox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

283 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of Providence between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,860 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 55 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 burning153
Arson/incendiarism55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Recreation and ceremony24
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2007Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2007Debris and open burning60 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 June 2012Debris and open burning63 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySWAN LAKE
23 June 2012Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBULL RUN F
16 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 June 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 May 2014Natural26 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySWAN POND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Providence in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindProvidence$10,000Multiple trees were blown down 1 mile north of Dr Thomas Walker SHS along Highway 459.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindProvidence$250The Knox County dispatch reported that strong thunderstorm wind gusts had blown down a tree onto KY-459 near the intersection with KY-11.
June 2021Funnel CloudProvidence-A funnel cloud was reported near the Providence community in Knox County.
January 2010Flash FloodProvidence-Over one foot of running water over highway 6 in Barbourville.

Every storm recorded in Knox 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Apple Grove (historical)1.0 miles17
Barbourville1.2 miles17
Heidrick2.1 miles18
Boone Heights2.5 miles17
Swanpond2.5 miles17
Dishman Springs2.8 miles17
Emanuel2.9 miles18
Swan Lake2.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 501367. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.