Right Fork of Meathouse, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Sidney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41519. It stands on Pigpen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Belfry quadrangle. It stands 1,106 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Right Fork of Meathouse within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1887 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Belfry quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Belfry quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Belfry quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

104 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Right Fork of Meathouse (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,182 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Arson/incendiarism	15
Recreation and ceremony	9

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 2007	Debris and open burning	98 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BALL FORK
28 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STONE
18 August 2008	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 May 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 1999	Debris and open burning	350 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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
Morcoal (historical)	1.7 miles	19
Upper Dick (historical)	2.3 miles	19
McAndrews	2.5 miles	19
Pigeon Roost (historical)	2.6 miles	19
Pinsonfork	2.7 miles	19
Stone	2.8 miles	19
Huddy	3.0 miles	19
Canada	3.0 miles	19

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.

Wikidata item Q7333504

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 2337006. 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.