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Tolliver Town, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Jenkins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41537. It stands on Potter Fork. The Survey maps it on the Jenkins West quadrangle.

Tolliver Town within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

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 Tolliver Town between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6,362 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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 burning112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Arson/incendiarism33
Recreation and ceremony25
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
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
9 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2017Arson/incendiarism22 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRHODES BRANCH
23 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 July 2007Debris and open burning250 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBOTTOM FORK
9 July 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryNEON HAYMOND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher 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 Tolliver Town: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Number 1 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Number 1 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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
Neon Junction0.3 miles18
Cromona0.8 miles18
Neon0.8 miles18
Fleming-Neon0.8 miles18
Whitaker0.9 miles18
Haymond1.1 miles18
Fleming1.2 miles18
Seco1.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122567802The 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 505327. 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.