Wentz, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Daisy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41731. It stands on Straight Fork. The Survey maps it on the Tilford quadrangle. It stands 1,165 feet above sea level.

Wentz within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1916 USGS Cornettsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Tilford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

132 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Wentz between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,451 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Arson/incendiarism	28
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	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
21 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 July 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BARK CAMP BRANCH- DELPHIA
13 June 2016	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CASTLE OAK ROAD
4 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PRATT MTN
31 May 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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
Beehive (historical)	2.3 miles	14
Slemp	2.5 miles	14
Daisy	2.8 miles	14
Tilford	3.5 miles	14
Cornettsville	3.7 miles	16
Delphia	3.8 miles	14
Beech Fork (historical)	4.3 miles	13
Fuson (historical)	5.3 miles	16

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 Wentz	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7983054	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 516271. 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.