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Sergent, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Whitesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41858. It stands on Webb Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mayking quadrangle. It stands 1,240 feet above sea level.

Sergent within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

202 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Sergent between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9,350 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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 burning103
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Arson/incendiarism27
Recreation and ceremony20
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITCO HIL
19 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 July 2007Debris and open burning250 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBOTTOM FORK
5 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryNEON HAYMOND
4 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOMET DRIVE
12 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sergent: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Whitesburg Mill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Whitesburg MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Letcher County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sergent in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2018Thunderstorm WindSergent-Dispatch reported a garage and the roof of a building were both heavily damaged by thunderstorm wind gusts near Mayking.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSergent-Trees and power lines were blown down on Sergent Rd.

Every storm recorded in Letcher 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
Mayking1.0 miles17
Farraday1.1 miles17
Southdown1.6 miles17
Millstone1.7 miles17
Kona1.8 miles18
Thornton1.8 miles17
Bottom Fork (historical)2.0 miles18
Crafts Colly (historical)2.1 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 SergentAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7453930The 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 503177. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.