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Robinson Creek, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Robinson Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41501. It stands on Robinson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pikeville quadrangle. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Robinson Creek within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

284 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Robinson Creek between 1997 and 2020, burning about 24,400 acres in total. None started naturally. 63 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 burning98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined77
Arson/incendiarism63
Recreation and ceremony42
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMARION BRANCH
7 September 2007Recreation and ceremony90 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2008Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning175 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRAYS BRANCH
27 September 2010Debris and open burning60 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRED CEDAR
25 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Robinson Creek in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
March 1997Flash FloodRobinson Creek$3,000no account filed
June 2015Flash FloodRobinson Creek$1,000Approximately 6 inches of water was flowing across Robinson Creek Road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindRobinson Creek-State police reported a tree down in the 6700 block of Robinson Creek Road near the community of Robinson Creek, blocking both lanes.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRobinson Creek-A tree was blown down.
June 2015HailRobinson Creek-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Douglas0.6 miles18
Yeager0.9 miles18
Upper Little Creek (historical)1.2 miles18
Collins1.4 miles18
Esco1.6 miles18
Penny2.3 miles18
Branham Heights (historical)2.9 miles18
Lake Helen Residence (historical)3.0 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on Robinson CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691169The 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 502089. 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.