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Trosper, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Trosper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40903. It stands on Powers Branch. The Survey maps it on the Artemus quadrangle. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Trosper within Knox 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

260 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 260 fires within 5 miles of Trosper between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,243 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 55 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 burning122
Missing data/not specified/undetermined62
Arson/incendiarism55
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
22 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning16 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
16 August 1999Arson/incendiarism36 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Trosper: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trosper in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
May 2025HailTrosper$10,000A social media report showed pictures of at least egg-sized hail in the community of Trosper around 4pm. The hail reportedly broke windshields in the area.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindTrosper$3,000A tree was blown down and onto a home in Trosper off of KY Hwy 225.
July 2011Flash FloodTrosper-A resident of Trosper reported that water from Brush Creek was flowing toward their home on KY225. The depth of the water was unknown.

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
East Jellico (historical)1.4 miles17
Avis (historical)1.9 miles17
Brush Creek (historical)2.5 miles17
Warren2.8 miles17
Himyar3.2 miles17
Artemus3.3 miles17
Kayjay3.4 miles18
Davis Bend (historical)3.6 miles17

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 TrosperAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7846301The 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 509237. 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.

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.