Smithsboro, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Carr Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41759. It stands on Little Smith Branch. The Survey maps it on the Blackey quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Smithsboro within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1913 USGS Oven Fork quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Blackey quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Blackey quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

384 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 384 fires within 5 miles of Smithsboro (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 13,084 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 53 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	189
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	115
Arson/incendiarism	53
Recreation and ceremony	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MONTGOMERY CREEK
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott 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
Cody (historical)	0.9 miles	18
Irishmans (historical)	1.1 miles	18
Carr Creek	1.4 miles	18
Carr Fork (historical)	2.0 miles	16
Amburgey	2.2 miles	16
Littcarr	2.5 miles	18
Breeding Creek (historical)	2.8 miles	18
Redfox	2.9 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2120744. 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.