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Travellers Rest, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Sturgeon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. It stands on Warren Chapel Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sturgeon quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Travellers Rest within Owsley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

248 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Travellers Rest between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,728 acres in total. None started naturally. 53 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 burning123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Arson/incendiarism53
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACK GAP
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestWILD DOG
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUILLEN ROAD
22 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Travellers Rest in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindTravellers Rest$10,000The tops of trees were blown out and power lines were down. There also piles of small hail still on the ground at around 6:30 am.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTravellers Rest-A power pole was broken off by thunderstorm wind gusts.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindTravellers Rest-Trees were blown down on Hwys 847 and 1503.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindTravellers Rest-A tree was blown down on Hwy 30.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTravellers Rest-Trees were downed.
July 2003HailTravellers Rest-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owsley 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.

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 Travellers RestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691374The 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 516018. 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.