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Wagersville, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wagersville-South Irvine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40336. It stands on Jones Branch. The Survey maps it on the Irvine quadrangle.

Wagersville within Estill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

119 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Wagersville between 1993 and 2018, burning about 5,354 acres in total. None started naturally. 43 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/incendiarism43
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony15
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2008Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 July 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestME CRAZY
10 July 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestSMOKING MAPLE
12 June 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Estill 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 Wagersville: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Highway 851 Shalw ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in Estill County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wagersville in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 tornado. 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
December 2019FloodWagersville$1,500Dispatch reported Murphy Flat Road was closed due to high water south of Ravenna.
January 2025FloodWagersville-Murphys Ford Road, located between Red Lick Road and Clay Isaacs Road was closed due to low-lying area flooding, south of Irvine.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWagersville-A tree reported down across Red Lick Rd. at the intersection of Murphys Flat Rd.
March 2021FloodWagersville-KY-594 is blocked between mile markers 7 and 13 due to high water across the road.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindWagersville-Trees were downed on Highway 594.
October 2009Tornado (EF1)Wagersville-Brief EF1 Tornado Touchdown confirmed by NWS Storm Survey Team about 5 miles south of Irvine on Murphys Ford Road.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWagersville-Trees were down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWagersville-Large tree limbs were blown down blocking several roads.

Every storm recorded in Estill 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
Greenbriar (historical)1.3 miles13
Barnes Mountain (historical)1.9 miles12
Alumbaugh2.4 miles13
Reeves (historical)2.5 miles12
Lynch Town (historical)2.5 miles13
Walnut Gap (historical)2.5 miles13
Crooked Creek (historical)3.7 miles15
Buck Creek (historical)3.9 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122572422The 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 516196. 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.

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.