BlockWebbville, Kentucky
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Webbville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41180. It stands on Caney Fork. The Survey maps it on the Webbville quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Webbville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
94 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Webbville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,828 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 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 | 33 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 April 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 April 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Webbville in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Flash Flood | Webbville | $1,000,000 | Numerous roads were blocked by flooding small streams throughout the county. Several culverts were damaged or washed out, damaging and closing roads. Blaine and Webbville Fire Departments, plus Cherryville Fire and Rescue, responded to individuals in stalled flooded vehicles. A few examples of flooding included Buck Branch, which was blocking 3 D Road and getting around a few houses. Flooding occurred along Georges Creek around Charley. ||Total 24 hour rain amounts reached 2.5 to 4 inches during this flooding.||The county damage assessment was 6 homes destroyed and 8 others with major damage. Another dozen homes and 2 businesses had minor damage. About 8 homes were classified as in a major risk due to hillside slides. Around 43 small private bridges or culverts were destroyed. |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Webbville | $400,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Webbville | $100,000 | Several streams quickly flooded and closed roads. Cat Fork and Little Cat Fork were examples in the northern portion of the county. Near Fallsburg, campers in the Falls Campground were evacuated as the water rose. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Webbville | $50,000 | Streams flooded roads and damaged sections of roads and culverts. A few of the affected streams included, Cat Fork, Little Cat Fork, and Irish Creek ||Less than 10 homes had minor water damage. |
| July 2012 | Flash Flood | Webbville | $20,000 | Rain estimates of 1.5 to 3 inches fell in a few hours. Streams at the headwaters of the Little East Fork, plus along the Cat Creek basin, overflowed. Minor flash flooding resulted. Highways 1 and 3 were covered by water. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Webbville | $20,000 | Roofs in the vicinity were damaged. |
| February 2018 | Flood | Webbville | $15,000 | Old Lick Creek spilled over its banks near Louisa, flooding Old Lick Creek Road where several vehicles became stranded in the high water. Dry Fork also flooded near Webbville, closing portions of Route 201. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Webbville | $15,000 | The headwaters of Dry Fork flooded Routes 1 and 201. Fishertown Branch Road was also closed due to high water. |
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Webbville | $10,000 | Streams and poor drainage flooded roads in the northern portion of the county. Route 23 was temporarily blocked by water near Louisa. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Webbville | $10,000 | Flooding along the Route 201 corridor included Lick Fork and Abbs Creek. Roads were impassable and outbuildings were washed away. No homes were damaged. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Webbville | $5,000 | Small streams along Route 210, such as Lick Creek, flooded roads. In the Nats Creek vicinity near the Martin County line, roads were flooded. No homes were flooded. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webbville | $5,000 | Large tree branches were snapped off across the northern portion of the county. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webbville | $3,000 | Near the town of Webbville, several trees were downed onto power lines. |
| April 2025 | Flood | Webbville | - | Flooding was observed on North Highway 201. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webbville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lick Creek (historical) | 1.4 miles | 15 | |
| Brammer Gap (historical) | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Orr | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Winding Stair | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Houckville | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Glenwood | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Overda | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Cherokee | 7.3 miles | 15 |
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 Webbville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q30622105 | The 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 506340. 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.