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Stidham, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Inez census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41262. It stands on Williamson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Milo quadrangle.

Stidham within Martin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

422 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 422 fires within 5 miles of Stidham between 1997 and 2020, burning about 21,728 acres in total. None started naturally. 118 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 burning169
Arson/incendiarism118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined87
Recreation and ceremony43
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
9 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPEACH ORCHARD
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2019Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOMAHAWK
22 September 2008Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryINEZ MOUNTAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin 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 Stidham: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Inez SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Joe FanninSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rockcastle Creek MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Martin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stidham in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 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
April 2024Thunderstorm WindStidham$50,000Martin County dispatch relayed a report of a tree through a roof near the 2000 block of Tomahawk Road northwest of Inez.
March 2015FloodStidham$1,000Kentucky 3411 at the Alpha Branch Bridge was impassable due to flooding.
August 2014FloodStidham$1,000Kentucky 645 near the Martin county line was partially flooded from runoff from heavy rain. One lane of the road was blocked.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindStidham-A tree was downed near 1000 Tomahawk Road in the community of Tomahawk.

Every storm recorded in Martin 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
Tomahawk1.1 miles16
Castle (historical)1.9 miles17
Milo2.4 miles17
Inez2.7 miles16
Job3.3 miles17
Davisport3.7 miles16
Debord4.3 miles16
Davella5.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509129. 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.

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.