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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.

Virgie within Pike County

Population over time

2 figures

Virgie 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.

YearPeople Change
2010279
2020274-5 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

Photographs

7 photographs, 1940

Taken 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.

Shocks of corn along highway near Virgie, Kentucky
Shocks of corn along highway near Virgie, Kentucky
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Mining town Virgie in eastern Kentucky Mountains
Mining town Virgie in eastern Kentucky Mountains
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Company homes in mining town. Virgie, Kentucky
Company homes in mining town. Virgie, Kentucky
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Mining town in Virgie in eastern Kentucky mountains
Mining town in Virgie in eastern Kentucky mountains
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Shocks of corn along highway near Virgie, Kentucky
Shocks of corn along highway near Virgie, Kentucky
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Mining town in Virgie in eastern Kentucky mountains
Mining town in Virgie in eastern Kentucky mountains
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Mining town Virgie in eastern Kentucky mountains
Mining town Virgie in eastern Kentucky mountains
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

282 since 1997

Regional 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 burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined75
Arson/incendiarism57
Recreation and ceremony40
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
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
9 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONG FORK VEIRGE
6 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2010Debris and open burning60 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRED CEDAR
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

26 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Flash FloodVirgie2 hurt, $150,0003.75 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 2008Thunderstorm WindVirgie$25,000Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindVirgie$10,000Trees were blown down onto power lines 4 miles northeast of Virgie.
August 2022Flash FloodVirgie$7,000Kentucky State Police reported a car stranded by flash flood waters at the intersection of KY-610 and Indian Creek Road.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindVirgie$1,000Powerlines were reported to have been blown down at the mouth of Long Fork near Virgie.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindVirgie$1,000A tree was blown down on Newsome Cemetary Road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindVirgie$1,000Four trees were blown down on KY 122 going toward Robinson Creek near Virgie.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindVirgie$1,000A tree was blown down and was blocking one lane of the road at the mouth of the Gardner Fork of Greasy Creek.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindVirgie-Trees were reported to have been blown down in the community of Virgie.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindVirgie-Trees and power lines were blown down and had fallen onto a house at Virgie.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindVirgie-A tree was blown down along Hwy 610 between mile markers 3 and 4.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindVirgie-A tree was blown down on Hollins Highway.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindVirgie-Trees were blown down.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindVirgie-Trees were blown down on Highways 122 and 610 near the Virgie community.
April 2011HailVirgie-Half dollar size hail was reported at Sugar Camp Branch Rd on Long Fork in Virgie.
April 2011HailVirgie-The hail was the size of baseballs.
April 2011HailVirgie-The hail was observed on Sugar Camp Branch road.
April 2011HailVirgie-The hail was the size of half dollar coins.
January 2004Flash FloodVirgie-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 2000FloodVirgie-Water was reported over several roads in the area.
July 2012HailVirgie-no account filed
May 2010HailVirgie-no account filed
June 2006HailVirgie-no account filed
June 2005HailVirgie-no account filed
May 2003HailVirgie-no account filed
August 2001HailVirgie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Ellwood0.7 miles18
Frogtown (historical)1.2 miles18
Long Fork (historical)1.3 miles18
Jonancy1.3 miles18
Penny1.9 miles18
Big Card (historical)2.5 miles18
Esco2.7 miles18
Wales3.1 miles19

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 VirgieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7933729The 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.