Rock Fork, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Dice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41701. It stands on Rock Fork. The Survey maps it on the Hazard North quadrangle. It stands 1,060 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.

Rock Fork within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1914 USGS Troublesome quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Hazard North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Hazard North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Hazard North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

666 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 666 fires within 5 miles of Rock Fork (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 24,811 acres in total. None started naturally. 152 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	258
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	198
Arson/incendiarism	152
Recreation and ceremony	48
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	56 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHERIFFS COURT
30 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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
Sixteen (historical)	1.7 miles	16
Upper Pidgeonroost (historical)	1.8 miles	16
Dice	2.0 miles	16
Jones (historical)	2.1 miles	16
Ary	2.2 miles	16
Harveyton	3.1 miles	16
Whitsett (historical)	3.1 miles	16
Hiner	3.1 miles	16

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 Rock Fork (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7354430	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 2557373. 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.