BlockStark, Kentucky
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Sandy Hook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41164. It stands on Beech Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ault quadrangle. It stands 935 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1950 USGS Ault quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Ault quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
61 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Stark between 1999 and 2020, burning about 487 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MOBILE HOM |
| 4 April 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MAYBERRY RIDGE |
| 30 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stark in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Stark | $6,000 | Heavy rain washed out a culvert on Route 1620 north of Stark. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stark | $3,000 | Trees were blown down on Hwy 649 north of Newfoundland. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stark | - | A social media report showed trees and limbs down on Grover Flannery Road near the community of Stark. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stark | - | Elliott County dispatch reported that trees had been blown down along KY-649. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stark | - | The Department of Highways reported a tree down on Kentucky Highway 649 near Stark. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Stark | - | Hail slightly larger than pennies was reported. |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Stark | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14691267 | 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 509121. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.