Shoulderblade, 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 41339. It stands on Combs Fork. The Survey maps it on the Canoe quadrangle. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Shoulderblade 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.

1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1913 USGS Buckhorn quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Canoe quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Canoe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

167 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Shoulderblade between 1995 and 2020, burning about 9,227 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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	80
Arson/incendiarism	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Recreation and ceremony	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	33 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 September 2002	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MICK COMBS HILL
3 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Guerrant	1.7 miles	14
Turkey	2.5 miles	12
Chenowee	3.3 miles	14
Copebranch	3.4 miles	12
Canoe	3.5 miles	13
Jetts Creek	4.0 miles	12
Sebastians Branch	4.2 miles	13
Houston	4.4 miles	12

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 Shoulderblade	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7502734	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 515393. 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.