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Sebastians Branch, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Canoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. It stands on Sebastian Branch. The Survey maps it on the Canoe quadrangle.

Sebastians Branch within Breathitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

168 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Sebastians Branch between 1995 and 2020, burning about 11,892 acres in total. None started naturally. 43 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 burning79
Arson/incendiarism43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony15
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2007Recreation and ceremony33 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBOWLING CREEK RD.
24 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMICK COMBS HILL
18 May 2000Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2007Debris and open burning60 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sebastians Branch in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 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
May 2009Flash FloodSebastians Branch$3,000Six to ten inches of water was flowing across Hwy 1933 at Talbert. Rockslides occurred around the intersection of Hwys 30 and 315.
June 2019HailSebastians Branch-A SKYWARN Spotter observed quarter sized hail from Sebastian's Branch to southeast of Talbert.

Every storm recorded in Breathitt 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
Talbert1.3 miles13
Canoe1.6 miles13
Houston2.4 miles12
Crockettsville2.7 miles13
Turkey3.5 miles12
Shoulderblade4.2 miles13
Morris Fork4.3 miles12
Guerrant5.0 miles14

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 Q122558744The 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 515315. 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.