Upper Tug, Kentucky

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Clifford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41230. It stands on Jones Branch. The Survey maps it on the Webb quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Upper Tug within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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.

1887 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1910 USGS Naugatuck quadrangle1:48000
1912 USGS Naugatuck quadrangle1:62500
1915 USGS Naugatuck quadrangle1:48000
1917 USGS Naugatuck quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1926 USGS Naugatuck quadrangle1:62500
1928 USGS Naugatuck quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Webb quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Webb quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

306 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 306 fires within 5 miles of Upper Tug (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,400 acres in total. None started naturally. 173 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
Arson/incendiarism	173
Debris and open burning	80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Recreation and ceremony	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Smoking	3
Fireworks	2

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 2002	Fireworks	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	MOSES FORK
30 September 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	WEBB ROAD
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BUFFALO HORN
24 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 2008	Debris and open burning	70 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 August 2008	Debris and open burning	180 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JOHNSON BOTTOM
29 July 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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 Upper Tug (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Rockcastle Creek Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Laurel (historical)	4.0 miles	17
Falls of Tug	4.3 miles	24
Clifford	4.3 miles	24
Donathon (historical)	6.0 miles	24
Peach Orchard	7.1 miles	17
Ben Bow	8.2 miles	17
Summit	8.3 miles	24
Brows Defeat (historical)	8.4 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2121019. 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.