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Wesleyville, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Carter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41164. It stands on Jordan Fork. The Survey maps it on the Wesleyville quadrangle.

Wesleyville within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

119 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Wesleyville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,811 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism25
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFORT FALLS
17 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 July 2012Natural25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCARTER CAV
10 May 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 May 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Wesleyville: 5 past producers, 5 producers, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Carter QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brushy Creek ClayClayProspect
Carter PitClayProducer
Ford Burchett Clay MineClayPast Producer
Fultz Clay MineClayProducer
Fultz MineClayPast Producer
Gesling Open Pit MineClayPast Producer
Hilger MineClayProducer
Stafford Hill MineClayPast Producer
Wade Cooper MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carter County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wesleyville in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
May 2016HailWesleyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carter 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
Rooney1.7 miles8
Smoky Valley3.1 miles9
Poplar3.4 miles8
Eby3.5 miles8
Carter3.6 miles8
Wolf4.0 miles8
Prater4.0 miles9
Smiths Creek4.5 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509339. 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.