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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1916 USGS Cornettsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Vicco quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Vicco quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
259 since 1997Regional 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 burning | 112 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 70 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 50 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 21 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ELK CREEK |
| 23 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | EMORY LN. |
| 17 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | UPPER RIVER RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Ulvah | $3,000 | no account filed |
| February 2018 | Flood | Ulvah | $1,000 | Kentucky Highway 7 was under water near Old Indian Bottom Church outside of Blackey. |
| July 2022 | Flood | Ulvah | - | 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ulvah | - | Trees were blown down along KY Hwy 7 at the Perry and Letcher county lines. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ulvah | - | Trees were blown down. |
| February 2011 | Flood | Ulvah | - | Highway 7 in Red Star was still flooded. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Ulvah | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hallie | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Banks | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Blackey | 4.0 miles | 18 | |
| Indian Bottom (historical) | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Turkey Creek (historical) | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Carcassonne | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Letcher | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| Skyline | 5.2 miles | 16 |
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 Ulvah | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7880838 | The 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.






