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Tillie, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Whitesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41824. It stands on Cow Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mayking quadrangle. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.

Tillie within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

228 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Tillie between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9,475 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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 burning107
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Arson/incendiarism27
Recreation and ceremony23
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2010Recreation and ceremony9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOVES BRANCH
9 September 2007Debris and open burning80 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITCO HIL
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher County

Storms near this place

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tillie in 1 storm report in 2002: 1 flash 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
January 2002Flash FloodTillie-Sections of Kentucky highway 1811 were under water.

Every storm recorded in Letcher 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
Little Colly (historical)0.5 miles17
Smoot Creek (historical)1.0 miles17
Sackett1.9 miles18
Isom1.9 miles18
Van2.1 miles17
Marshal Branch (historical)2.2 miles18
Camp Branch (historical)2.3 miles17
Polly2.4 miles17

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 TillieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7802837The 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 509212. 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.