Turkey Pen, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Long Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41572. It stands on Turkeypen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wheelwright quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Turkey Pen within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Vergie quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Wheelwright quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Wheelwright quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

271 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Turkey Pen (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 26,571 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 49 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	109
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	67
Arson/incendiarism	49
Recreation and ceremony	43
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LONG FORK VEIRGE
6 September 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	396 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1,500 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wales	0.8 miles	19
Hartley	1.1 miles	19
Lower Long Fork (historical)	1.2 miles	19
Osborne Fork (historical)	1.5 miles	19
Harley (historical)	1.5 miles	19
Long Fork (historical)	2.2 miles	18
Marshall Branch (historical)	2.5 miles	19
Big Card (historical)	2.9 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2337074. 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.