Walnut Gap, Kentucky

13 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 Searcy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Leighton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Walnut Gap within Estill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

1892 USGS Beattyville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1952 USGS Leighton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

147 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Gap (historical) between 1993 and 2019, burning about 4,032 acres in total. None started naturally. 45 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	48
Arson/incendiarism	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Recreation and ceremony	17
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2008	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	HALE RIDGE #1
11 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	ME CRAZY
10 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	SMOKING MAPLE
12 June 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 May 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Barnes Mountain (historical)	1.4 miles	12
Leighton	1.6 miles	13
Buck Creek (historical)	1.9 miles	12
Alumbaugh	2.0 miles	13
Macedonia (historical)	2.1 miles	12
Wagersville	2.5 miles	12
Evelyn	2.7 miles	11
Shade	2.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2440549. 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.