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Ulvah, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Blackey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41731. It stands on Line Fork. The Survey maps it on the Vicco quadrangle. It stands 991 feet above sea level.

Ulvah within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

259 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 259 fires within 5 miles of Ulvah between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9,558 acres in total. 2 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 burning112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined70
Arson/incendiarism50
Recreation and ceremony21
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELK CREEK
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryEMORY LN.
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER RIVER RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ulvah in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 3 flood, 2 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 1996Flash FloodUlvah$3,000no account filed
February 2018FloodUlvah$1,000Kentucky Highway 7 was under water near Old Indian Bottom Church outside of Blackey.
July 2022FloodUlvah-Flash flooding across portions of Letcher County persisted into areal flooding. In addition the river gauge at Whitesburg went from 2 feet around midnight on the 28th to a minor flood stage of 10 feet by 5:30 AM EST, then to a height of 22.03 feet by 10 AM EST. At this point the gauge was taken out by the flood waters before it crested. The river then dropped below flood stage once more later that afternoon around 5:45 PM EST. ||Some additional flooding reports received for Letcher County between 7/28 and 7/29 include:||At 12:55 PM EST (7/28) - The Isom IGA/Subway is inundated by several feed of flood water. |At 1:46 PM EST - Pictures from the media show SKCTC Campus inundated by the North Fork of the Kentucky River. Water levels were half way up the first-story windows on at least one campus building.||Multiple other creeks and streams that fed into the North Fork of the Kentucky River also experienced extensive flooding.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindUlvah-Trees were blown down along KY Hwy 7 at the Perry and Letcher county lines.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindUlvah-Trees were blown down.
February 2011FloodUlvah-Highway 7 in Red Star was still flooded.
August 2012HailUlvah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Letcher 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
Hallie2.4 miles14
Banks3.4 miles14
Blackey4.0 miles18
Indian Bottom (historical)4.2 miles18
Turkey Creek (historical)4.3 miles14
Carcassonne4.6 miles18
Letcher5.1 miles18
Skyline5.2 miles16

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 UlvahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7880838The 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 509257. 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.