Virgie, Kentucky
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Dorton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41572. It stands on Adkins Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dorton quadrangle. 274 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 902 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresVirgie fell from 279 to 274 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 279 | |
| 2020 | 274 | -5 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1914 USGS Vergie quadrangle1:48000
- 1916 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Dorton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Dorton quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
7 photographs, 1940Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
282 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of Virgie between 1997 and 2020, burning about 35,356 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 57 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 | 104 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 57 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 40 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LONG FORK VEIRGE |
| 6 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | RED CEDAR |
| 25 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Virgie in 26 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1999 | Flash Flood | Virgie | 2 hurt, $150,000 | 3.75 inches of rain fell in less than an hour on the long branch area. Flooding brought rocks, trees and other debris down a hillside near Virgie. A garage containing two cars collapsed, a house and mobile home received major damage and four houses received minor damage. Two people received leg injuries as they were caught in the debris flow. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virgie | $25,000 | Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virgie | $10,000 | Trees were blown down onto power lines 4 miles northeast of Virgie. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Virgie | $7,000 | Kentucky State Police reported a car stranded by flash flood waters at the intersection of KY-610 and Indian Creek Road. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virgie | $1,000 | Powerlines were reported to have been blown down at the mouth of Long Fork near Virgie. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virgie | $1,000 | A tree was blown down on Newsome Cemetary Road. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virgie | $1,000 | Four trees were blown down on KY 122 going toward Robinson Creek near Virgie. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virgie | $1,000 | A tree was blown down and was blocking one lane of the road at the mouth of the Gardner Fork of Greasy Creek. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virgie | - | Trees were reported to have been blown down in the community of Virgie. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virgie | - | Trees and power lines were blown down and had fallen onto a house at Virgie. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virgie | - | A tree was blown down along Hwy 610 between mile markers 3 and 4. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virgie | - | A tree was blown down on Hollins Highway. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virgie | - | Trees were blown down. |
| December 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Virgie | - | Trees were blown down on Highways 122 and 610 near the Virgie community. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Virgie | - | Half dollar size hail was reported at Sugar Camp Branch Rd on Long Fork in Virgie. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Virgie | - | The hail was the size of baseballs. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Virgie | - | The hail was observed on Sugar Camp Branch road. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Virgie | - | The hail was the size of half dollar coins. |
| January 2004 | Flash Flood | Virgie | - | United States Route 119 was closed due to high water at Penny Bottom. There were road closures due to high water at Five Forks and Harold's Branch Road. Water was over a bridge in Elkhorn City at the grade school. |
| June 2000 | Flood | Virgie | - | Water was reported over several roads in the area. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Virgie | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Virgie | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Virgie | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Virgie | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Virgie | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Virgie | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellwood | 0.7 miles | 18 | |
| Frogtown (historical) | 1.2 miles | 18 | |
| Long Fork (historical) | 1.3 miles | 18 | |
| Jonancy | 1.3 miles | 18 | |
| Penny | 1.9 miles | 18 | |
| Big Card (historical) | 2.5 miles | 18 | |
| Esco | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Wales | 3.1 miles | 19 |
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 Virgie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7933729 | 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 506067. 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.








