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Sextons Creek, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Burning Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40983. It stands on Buncomb Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maulden quadrangle. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Sextons Creek within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

296 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 296 fires within 5 miles of Sextons Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,488 acres in total. None started naturally. 78 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 burning120
Arson/incendiarism78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined75
Recreation and ceremony17
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 August 1999Smoking25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sextons Creek in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 9 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
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSextons Creek$8,000Half of a barn blown down and several apple trees were uprooted.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSextons Creek-Clay County Highway Garage reported a tree down in Sextons Creek 1 mile NE from the intersection of KY-577 and KY-1350.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindSextons Creek-A 3 foot diameter tree was blown down and onto a house..
February 2014Thunderstorm WindSextons Creek-Trees were blown down on Hwy 577.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSextons Creek-Several trees were down across State Hwy 1350 in the Clark community.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSextons Creek-A tree was blown down at the intersection of Hwy's 1350 and 577.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindSextons Creek-Two trees were blown down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSextons Creek-Trees were blown down.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindSextons Creek-no account filed
August 2001HailSextons Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Mouth of Little Sextons Creek (historical)1.4 miles13
Chestnutburg1.9 miles13
Alger2.8 miles13
Vine2.9 miles13
Felty4.0 miles13
Shepherdtown4.7 miles13
Burning Springs5.0 miles13
Laurel Creek5.2 miles13

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 Sextons CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7458620The 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 515330. 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.