Upper White Oak Creek, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the West Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Vance Fork. The Survey maps it on the White Oak quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Upper White Oak Creek within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1889 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1951 USGS White Oak quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS White Oak quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

130 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Upper White Oak Creek (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,751 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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	55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Arson/incendiarism	21
Recreation and ceremony	14
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
30 September 2001	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ST ROUTE 1081
14 September 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 August 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 July 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HWY 460-1081 INTERSECTION
16 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROCKHOUSE CREEK RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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
Vance Fork (historical)	1.1 miles	12
White Oak	1.3 miles	12
Holliday	2.3 miles	12
Matthew	2.5 miles	12
Jones Creek (historical)	2.8 miles	14
Stacy Fork	3.0 miles	14
Tarkiln (historical)	3.1 miles	12
Rockhouse (historical)	3.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2362595. 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.