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Swanpond, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Barbourville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40906. It stands on Swan Pond Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barbourville quadrangle.

Swanpond within Knox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

244 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Swanpond between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,232 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 49 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 burning127
Arson/incendiarism49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Recreation and ceremony21
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2007Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPERMAN ROAD
29 June 2012Debris and open burning63 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySWAN LAKE
23 June 2012Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBULL RUN F
16 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swanpond in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 3 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 2021Thunderstorm WindSwanpond$1,000A tree was blown down along south KY Route 11 near Swanpond.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindSwanpond-Dispatch reported a tree downed on Taylor Lane southeast of Barbourville.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSwanpond-Several trees down along Highways 1803 and 718 on the outskirts of Barbourville.

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Swan Lake1.3 miles17
Apple Grove (historical)2.0 miles17
Davis Bend (historical)2.1 miles17
Providence2.5 miles17
Boone Heights2.5 miles17
Barbourville2.6 miles17
Artemus3.3 miles17
Brush Creek (historical)3.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509172. 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.