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Weeksbury, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Wheelwright-Weeksbury census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41667. It stands on Caleb Fork. The Survey maps it on the Wheelwright quadrangle. It stands 1,178 feet above sea level.

Weeksbury within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

246 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 246 fires within 5 miles of Weeksbury between 1997 and 2020, burning about 20,200 acres in total. None started naturally. 46 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 burning105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Arson/incendiarism46
Recreation and ceremony37
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONG FORK VEIRGE
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning396 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning1,500 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined165 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRILEYS BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weeksbury in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWeeksbury$1,000A power line was reported to be hanging across Caleb Fork Road, in the community of Weeksbury, due to a downed tree. The exact location along Caleb Fork Road was not given.
November 2003Thunderstorm WindWeeksbury-Trees were blown down onto Caleb Fork Road. Trees were also suspended on telephone lines.
July 2002LightningWeeksbury-Water was across roads along Caleb Road and Skull Fork Road. High water was reported to be in people's yards.

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Melvin1.6 miles19
Wheelwright1.8 miles19
Wheelwright Junction2.3 miles19
Halo2.8 miles19
Burton2.9 miles19
Ligon3.0 miles19
Jacks Creek3.5 miles19
Buckingham3.9 miles19

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 WeeksburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7979543The 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 509333. 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.