Tejay, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Tejay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40977. It stands on Tom Fork. The Survey maps it on the Balkan quadrangle. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Tejay within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1886 USGS Cumberland Gap quadrangle1:125000
1888 USGS Cumberland Gap quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Cumberland Gap quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1903 USGS Pineville quadrangle1:48000
1954 USGS Balkan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Balkan quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Middlesboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

270 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 270 fires within 5 miles of Tejay between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,838 acres in total. None started naturally. 62 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 burning	107
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	87
Arson/incendiarism	62
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TANYARD HILL
30 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Balkan	1.0 miles	18
Miracle	1.2 miles	18
Callaway	1.4 miles	18
Varilla	2.6 miles	27
Blackmont	2.8 miles	18
Oaks	2.9 miles	27
Kettle Island	2.9 miles	18
Tuggleville	3.1 miles	18

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 Tejay	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7695211	The 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 509194. 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.