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Stay, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Booneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. It stands on Caney Fork. The Survey maps it on the Beattyville quadrangle. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Stay within Owsley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

404 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 404 fires within 5 miles of Stay between 1997 and 2020, burning about 13,266 acres in total. None started naturally. 86 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 burning154
Missing data/not specified/undetermined123
Arson/incendiarism86
Recreation and ceremony35
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACK GAP
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGHWAY 11 SOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley 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
Stacey Neighborhood (historical)0.1 miles13
Fish Creek Neighborhood (historical)1.5 miles13
Booneville2.6 miles14
Lerose2.7 miles12
Sugar Camp Neighborhood (historical)2.9 miles14
Chestnut Gap3.6 miles14
Chestnut Neighborhood (historical)3.6 miles14
Pleasant Neighborhood (historical)4.0 miles14

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 StayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7604980The 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 515672. 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.