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Wallins Creek, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Wallins Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40873. It stands on Wallins Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wallins Creek quadrangle. 212 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,135 feet above sea level.

Wallins Creek within Harlan County

Population over time

3 figures

Wallins Creek fell from 257 to 212 between 2000 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
2000257
2010156-101 (-39%)
2020212+56 (+36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

145 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Wallins Creek between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,920 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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 burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Arson/incendiarism27
Recreation and ceremony6
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
23 September 2007Debris and open burning17 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 July 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOLD IRON
23 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 May 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Wallins Creek: 3 prospects. 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
Jesse Spur RoadcutClayProspect
Kentenia ShaleClayProspect
Wallins Creek South ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Harlan County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallins Creek in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWallins Creek$20,000Numerous trees were blown down on Wallins Creek. Winds were estimated at 70 mph.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWallins Creek$8,000Numerous wrist size tree limbs were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2008HailWallins Creek$8,000Several tree limbs the size of a persons wrist were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 1996Flash FloodWallins Creek$5,000no account filed
March 2008Thunderstorm WindWallins Creek$3,000One tree was blown down onto power lines in Wallins Creek.
June 2007HailWallins Creek$3,000Quarter size hail lasted for 20 minutes and covered the ground. Also trees were blown down in front yard.
April 2011HailWallins Creek-The hail was the size of walnuts.
July 2010Heavy RainWallins Creek-A trained spotter reported 2 to 3 inches of water over a roadway in Wallins Creek.
June 2009Flash FloodWallins Creek-Five feet of water was reported on Back Street near the post office at Wallins Creek.
June 2009Heavy RainWallins Creek-A volunteer storm spotter reported 2 inches of rain in about 40 minutes.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindWallins Creek-Trees down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindWallins Creek-Severe thunderstorm winds blew numerous trees down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWallins Creek-Trees downed.
March 2012HailWallins Creek-no account filed
March 2012HailWallins Creek-no account filed
May 2010HailWallins Creek-no account filed
May 1998HailWallins Creek-no account filed
May 1996HailWallins Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harlan 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
Longton0.5 miles24
South Wallins1.2 miles24
Tremont1.4 miles24
Coldiron2.0 miles24
Wilhoit2.2 miles24
Fresh Meadows2.4 miles25
Layman2.5 miles24
Kentenia2.6 miles24

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 Wallins CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2469104The 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 506153. 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.