Wheelwright Junction, 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 41612. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wheelwright quadrangle.

Wheelwright Junction 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.

1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Vergie quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Wheelwright quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Wheelwright quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

289 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 289 fires within 5 miles of Wheelwright Junction between 1997 and 2020, burning about 24,150 acres in total. None started naturally. 54 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	117
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	71
Arson/incendiarism	54
Recreation and ceremony	41
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	396 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1,500 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	165 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RILEYS BRANCH
22 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Burton	0.6 miles	19
Melvin	1.2 miles	19
Jacks Creek	1.2 miles	19
Wheelwright	1.4 miles	19
Buckingham	1.6 miles	19
Weeksbury	2.3 miles	19
Ligon	2.6 miles	19
Hi Hat	2.7 miles	18

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.

Wikidata item Q122549898

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 506543. 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.