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South Wallins, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Wallins Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40873. It stands on Brock Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wallins Creek quadrangle. 838 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,142 feet above sea level.

South Wallins within Harlan County

Population over time

3 figures

South Wallins fell from 996 to 838 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000996
2010859-137 (-14%)
2020838-21 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

149 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of South Wallins between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,942 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 30 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 burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Arson/incendiarism30
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning17 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 July 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOLD IRON
23 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of South Wallins: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jesse Spur RoadcutClayProspect
Kentenia ShaleClayProspect
Wallins Creek South ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Harlan 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
Wallins Creek1.2 miles24
Kentenia1.4 miles24
Longton1.4 miles24
Tremont2.1 miles24
Coldiron2.4 miles24
Wilhoit2.5 miles24
Fresh Meadows2.8 miles25
Layman2.9 miles24

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 South WallinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2127002The 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 503985. 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.