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Walden, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cumberland Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40701. The Survey maps it on the Wofford quadrangle.

Walden within Whitley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

97 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Walden between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,148 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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 burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism13
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural1

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
24 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 1999Recreation and ceremony112 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 August 2007Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySAWDUST PI
12 June 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryWOFFORD CEM. RD
14 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMILE MARKER 18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitley 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 Walden: 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
Junction RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Whitley County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walden in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2018Flash FloodWalden$100Dispatch reported that a portion of Mauney Chapel Road, northwest of Rockholds, was heavily damaged due to swiftly flowing flood waters.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWalden-Trees were blown down on Tidal Wave Road.
July 2011Flash FloodWalden-The public reported that flash flooding was occurring on Cripple Creek Road.
June 2009Flash FloodWalden-Kentucky Highway 26 and some side roads were under water and closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Whitley 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
Clio2.6 miles16
Faber2.8 miles16
Rockholds3.0 miles16
Goldbug3.7 miles16
Youngs Creek4.1 miles16
Watts Creek Jellico Coal Company (historical)4.2 miles16
Wofford4.7 miles16
Chestnut Grove (historical)5.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 516203. 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.