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Tacky Town, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Pine Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40988. It stands on Laurel Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wallins Creek quadrangle. It stands 1,194 feet above sea level.

Tacky Town within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

134 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Tacky Town between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,479 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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 burning60
Arson/incendiarism39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
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
29 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined272 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEN HOWARD HOLLOW
22 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 July 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOLD IRON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tacky Town: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Jesse Spur RoadcutClayProspect
Wallins Creek South ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Harlan 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
Layman1.6 miles24
Coldiron2.0 miles24
Molus2.7 miles24
Wallins Creek3.4 miles24
Longton3.6 miles24
Tremont4.2 miles24
South Wallins4.2 miles24
Wilhoit5.3 miles24

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 Tacky TownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7673947The 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 504914. 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.