Road Fork, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Williamson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41527. It lies near Thompson Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Williamson quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Road Fork within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

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 Williamson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Road Fork (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,861 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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	63
Arson/incendiarism	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Fireworks	12
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GOODY
13 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOFTIS MANSION
13 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
17 June 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 May 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 May 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	SYCAMORE CK.
15 May 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	BUFFALO CREEK AT COIN FORK

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
Forest Hills	0.2 miles	23
Belfry	1.6 miles	19
New Camp	1.8 miles	23
Leckieville	2.0 miles	23
Sharondale	2.2 miles	19
Toler	2.2 miles	23
Goody	2.3 miles	23
Canada	2.6 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2337467. 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.