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Seitz, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the West Magoffin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41465. It stands on Puncheon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Seitz quadrangle.

Seitz within Magoffin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

226 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Seitz between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,603 acres in total. None started naturally. 41 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 burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Arson/incendiarism41
Recreation and ceremony24
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
4 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMIDDLE PUNCHEON
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 June 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 June 2012Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOSE BRANC
27 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGH ROCK
1 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOW CRK. CHURCH
1 May 2010Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPUNCHEON CREEK RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Magoffin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seitz in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
February 2020Heavy RainSeitz$20,000Local Emergency Management reported several mudslides, due to previous heavy rainfall, across southwestern to central portions of Magoffin County, including southwest of and near Salyersville.
June 2019HailSeitz-A trained spotter observed penny sized hail near Eugene.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSeitz-An NWS Employee observed several trees downed along Kentucky Highway 378 in and around Seitz.

Every storm recorded in Magoffin 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
Fritz1.0 miles13
Puncheon (historical)1.4 miles13
Ova2.0 miles13
Craft Fork (historical)2.7 miles13
Crafts Fork2.7 miles13
Hendricks2.8 miles14
Stella2.9 miles13
Foraker3.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509028. 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.