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Timsley, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Pineville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40977. It stands on Bell Jellico Branch. The Survey maps it on the Artemus quadrangle. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Timsley within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

267 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Timsley between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,940 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 57 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 burning121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Arson/incendiarism57
Recreation and ceremony16
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
26 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUS HWY 25E
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOAL PORT #1
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 1999Arson/incendiarism36 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell 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 Timsley: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, 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
Highway 25-E RoadcutClayProspect
Levi Polly Sand PitSilicaPast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Fourmile1.5 miles18
Rim Camp (historical)3.0 miles18
Wallsend3.3 miles18
Ingram4.0 miles18
Pineville4.2 miles18
Clear Creek Springs4.5 miles25
Ivy Grove4.7 miles18
Dorton Branch4.7 miles18

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 TimsleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7807672The 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 509213. 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.