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Totz, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Poor Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40870. It stands on Eloise Branch. The Survey maps it on the Louellen quadrangle. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.

Totz within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

100 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Totz between 1997 and 2020, burning about 16,594 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism25
Recreation and ceremony3
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
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKARST ROBBINS
15 September 2019Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOBSTER BRANCH
9 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 June 1999Arson/incendiarism66 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 May 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOE KNOB
2 May 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined136 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 May 2018Debris and open burning45 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 510

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Totz in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2013: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2001Flash FloodTotz$10,000Three homes were flooded as Kentucky Highway 522 was covered with water.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindTotz-Trees were down on Hwy 552.
May 2004HailTotz-no account filed
May 1999HailTotz-no account filed

Every storm 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
Dione1.8 miles23
Louellen2.5 miles23
Nolansburg2.8 miles23
Gano3.1 miles23
Benito3.1 miles23
Black Bottom3.2 miles23
Ridgeway3.3 miles23
Pine Mountain3.4 miles23

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 TotzAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7828515The 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 515979. 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.