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Vancleve, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Taulbee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41301. It stands on Little Frozen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Landsaw quadrangle. It stands 718 feet above sea level.

Vancleve within Breathitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

154 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Vancleve between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,109 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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 burning78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism24
Recreation and ceremony16
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2002Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAVE BRANCH ROAD
14 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vancleve in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
August 2009Thunderstorm WindVancleve$4,000Two 8 inch diameter trees were blown down on Highway 3193. The trees also snapped a power pole when they fell.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindVancleve$2,000Two trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2015FloodVancleve$1,000Kentucky 541 near the Mountain Gospel radio station was flooded.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindVancleve$1,000A tree was blown down on Hwy 15 in Vancleve.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindVancleve$1,000A tree was blown down along Highway 15 one mile south of the Wolfe county line.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindVancleve$1,000Tree down along Highway 15.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindVancleve-Trees were blown down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindVancleve-A tree was blown down near the Vancleve Fire Dept.
May 2009Flash FloodVancleve-The north fork of the Kentucky River was about 100 yards out of its banks at the Hwy 15 bridge in Vancleve.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindVancleve-Numerous trees down.
July 2000HailVancleve-Estimated 60 mph wind gusts were reported.
June 2007HailVancleve-no account filed
July 2006HailVancleve-no account filed
December 2004HailVancleve-no account filed
May 2004Flash FloodVancleve-no account filed
May 2002HailVancleve-no account filed
May 1997HailVancleve-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindVancleve-no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodVancleve-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breathitt 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
Wilhurst0.4 miles13
Sewell1.3 miles13
Fivemile2.3 miles14
Frozen Creek2.5 miles14
Lawson3.0 miles14
Wolverine3.2 miles14
Keck3.3 miles14
Paxton3.4 miles13

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 VancleveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691424The 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 509273. 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.