BlockSloans Valley, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Burnside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42519. It lies near Minton Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Burnside quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1932 USGS Burnside quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Burnside quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Burnside quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
80 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Sloans Valley between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,741 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | OLE HIGHWAY 27 |
| 30 August 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | BUCK KNOB FIRE II |
| 3 June 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | JEEP |
| 27 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JERU KNOB |
| 23 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 June 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 May 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | POWER LINE |
| 3 May 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | CURT POND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sloans Valley: 1 producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tateville Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122561085 | 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 515494. 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.