Slatter Branch, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Williamson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41514. It stands on Slater Branch. The Survey maps it on the Williamson quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Slatter Branch within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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.

1887 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Slatter Branch (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,270 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 46 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	67
Arson/incendiarism	46
Fireworks	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GOODY
19 September 2007	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2001	Natural	22 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	COLEMAN BR.
13 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOFTIS MANSION
13 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
17 June 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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
Turkey Creek	1.4 miles	23
South Williamson	1.8 miles	23
New Camp	2.4 miles	23
Rural	2.8 miles	23
Mouth of Long Fork (historical)	2.8 miles	23
Goody	2.9 miles	23
Leckieville	2.9 miles	23
Forest Hills	3.7 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2337040. 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.