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Three Point, Kentucky

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Cawood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40815. It stands on Raccoon Branch. The Survey maps it on the Harlan quadrangle.

Three Point 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

127 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Three Point between 1995 and 2020, burning about 6,164 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 31 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 burning58
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPINE BRANCH FIRE
25 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 June 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Three Point: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Grabill MineIronPast ProducerHematite

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
Smith1.9 miles26
Bobs Creek2.0 miles24
Cawood2.2 miles24
Sampson2.7 miles26
Lenarue3.0 miles25
Crummies3.1 miles24
Yancey3.2 miles25
Mary Helen3.4 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 505237. 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.