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Teetersville, Kentucky

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Harlan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40831. It lies near Black Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Harlan quadrangle. It stands 1,257 feet above sea level.

Teetersville within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

194 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Teetersville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,969 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 30 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 burning85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Arson/incendiarism30
Recreation and ceremony18
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
28 September 2007Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning17 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPINE BRANCH FIRE

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 Teetersville: 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
Kentenia ShaleClayProspect
Wallins Creek South ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Harlan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Teetersville in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2021: 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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
February 2019Heavy RainTeetersville$25,000Department of Highway officials reported that Kentucky Highway 72 was blocked between Kentucky Highway 2425 and Pruitt's Curve due to a large rock slide. Crews were able to open one lane by late morning, following the Harlan County Judge Executive declaring a State of Emergency. This was likely caused by 1.5 to 2 inches of rain on top of saturated terrain. Crews worked to clean up the slide for the next 5 weeks, causing travel impacts.
May 2017Flash FloodTeetersville$1,000A foot of water was observed flow across Hwy 72 near the junction of Hwy 2425.
March 2021FloodTeetersville-Hwy 72 near Caball Estates in the Catrons Creek community is impassable according to pictures posted to social media.

Every storm 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
Elcomb0.6 miles25
Dressen1.4 miles25
Tway1.4 miles25
Sunshine1.7 miles25
Mary Alice2.0 miles25
Harlan2.2 miles25
Rio Vista2.5 miles25
Pansy2.7 miles25

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 TeetersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7694599The 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 505056. 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.