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Rileyville, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Upper Clover Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40927. It stands on Star Branch. The Survey maps it on the Louellen quadrangle.

Rileyville within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

66 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Rileyville between 1995 and 2019, burning about 7,456 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKARST ROBBINS
20 May 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOE KNOB
7 April 2010Misuse of fire by a minor300 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined110 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHIELDS #2
29 April 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHIELDS #3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan 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
Clover-Darby0.3 miles23
Closplint0.5 miles23
Georgetown0.8 miles23
Black Bottom1.1 miles23
Rutherford1.8 miles23
Louellen1.8 miles23
Highsplint2.7 miles23
Ridgeway3.2 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 514968. 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.