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Warfield, Kentucky

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Warfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41267. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kermit quadrangle. 264 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Warfield within Martin County

Population over time

2 figures

Warfield fell from 269 to 264 between 2010 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
2010269
2020264-5 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 26 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

358 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 358 fires within 5 miles of Warfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,928 acres in total. None started naturally. 161 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/incendiarism161
Debris and open burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Recreation and ceremony22
Other causes6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks5
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryLITTLE BILLY'S BR
25 September 1999Debris and open burning20 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryOLD KERMIT GRADE SCHOOL
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryEMILY CREEK ROAD
22 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning3.1 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryMARROWBONE JUNCTION
21 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 August 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryPARSLEY BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin 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 Warfield: 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 Roadcut Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Martin County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warfield in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWarfield$5,000There were trees blown down on route 292 Hode road in Warfield.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWarfield$3,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down along Hode Road in the community of Warfield.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindWarfield$2,000Trees were blown down in Warfield.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindWarfield$1,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWarfield-Trees were downed on Beauty Road (KY-40) somewhere near Warfield and Beauty.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWarfield-Trees down on Little Elk and Hode Road.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWarfield-Trees were blown down on Hwy 292.
April 2006HailWarfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Martin 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
Beauty1.2 miles26
Lovely1.5 miles26
West Lovely (historical)1.6 miles26
Hode2.9 miles25
Pilgrim3.1 miles26
Threeforks6.1 miles26
McClure6.6 miles26
Inez6.6 miles16

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 WarfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2694505The 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 506226. 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.