BlockToonerville, Kentucky
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Fedscreek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41548. It stands on Hackney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harman quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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 Grundy quadrangle1:125000
- 1890 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1914 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:48000
- 1915 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:48000
- 1915 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Harman quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Harman quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
154 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Toonerville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 10,858 acres in total. None started naturally. 50 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 | 61 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 50 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | FEDS CREEK |
| 6 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 90 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BIG HACKNEY'S CREEK |
| 10 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Virginia Department of Forestry | not named |
| 26 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 May 2008 | Smoking | 10 acres | Virginia Department of Forestry | not named |
| 5 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Virginia Department of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hackney Creek (historical) | 0.4 miles | 22 | |
| Mouthcard | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| Fedscreek | 2.4 miles | 20 | |
| Motley (historical) | 2.6 miles | 20 | |
| Lick Creek | 3.6 miles | 19 | |
| Dunlap | 4.1 miles | 20 | |
| Biggs | 4.1 miles | 19 | |
| Nigh | 4.7 miles | 19 |
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 Toonerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q21197746 | 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 505360. 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.