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Stevenson, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Rousseau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41339. It stands on Andys Branch. The Survey maps it on the Quicksand quadrangle.

Stevenson within Breathitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

94 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Stevenson between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,623 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony9
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
5 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOWER ROAD
8 April 2008Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2010Debris and open burning45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stevenson in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2000Flash FloodStevenson$5,000Flood waters entered several homes along Highway 2466.
April 2015FloodStevenson$1,000Meatscaffold Rd was underwater and impassable. There was also a mudslide blocking one lane of Hwy 30E.
May 2025FloodStevenson-Water was reported over the road at Meatscaffold Road, off KY-30 East, as well as at Bert Barnett's and Slate Branch.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindStevenson-A tree was blown down onto Highway 30 west of Rousseau.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindStevenson-A couple of trees were blown down along Kentucky Highway 30 east of Jackson to northeast of Guage.
July 2011Flash FloodStevenson-Water was flowing across Meat Scaffold Road west of Rousseau.
May 2010Flash FloodStevenson-Meatscaffold Branch had flooded Highway 2466 with water up to a foot deep. The water had receeded and uncovered the road as of 1250 am.

Every storm recorded in Breathitt 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
Rousseau1.9 miles14
Wilstacy3.3 miles14
Guage3.5 miles14
Press3.7 miles14
Wells Fork4.0 miles14
Noctor4.3 miles14
Portsmouth4.5 miles14
Bays4.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509127. 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.