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Warbranch, Kentucky

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Mozelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40874. It lies near Buck Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Helton quadrangle. It stands 1,263 feet above sea level.

Warbranch within Leslie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Warbranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,781 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 55 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 burning77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Arson/incendiarism55
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2007Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning500 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOTATO KNOB
28 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresDaniel Boone National ForestRAVEN ROCK
14 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUCK HOLLOW FIRE
24 June 2014Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOW CK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leslie County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warbranch in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2012: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2000Flash FloodWarbranch$5,000Heavy rains caused flash flooding down the middle fork of the Kentucky River. The crest of the flood water was carrying a large amount of debris which cause damming along the river. This caused flooding at the intersection of Stinnett-Wendover roads and washed several bridges out.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindWarbranch$3,000One tree and a few large limbs were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindWarbranch$1,000One tree was blown down on KY Highway 1850.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWarbranch-Trees down.
March 2012HailWarbranch-no account filed
August 2000HailWarbranch-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leslie 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
Spruce Pine2.3 miles25
Helton3.2 miles25
Saylor4.0 miles25
Mozelle4.2 miles14
Roark5.7 miles13
Chappell6.5 miles14
Asher6.5 miles14
Upper Laurel Fork (historical)6.9 miles25

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 WarbranchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691498The 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 516225. 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.