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Wiborg, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Parkers Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42653. It stands on North Fork Koger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wiborg quadrangle. It stands 1,358 feet above sea level.

Wiborg within McCreary County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Wiborg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,532 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 91 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
Arson/incendiarism91
Debris and open burning15
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2008Natural5.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestYAHOO ARCH
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarism13 acresDaniel Boone National ForestARCHER
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism21 acresDaniel Boone National ForestTIRE
8 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestRAILROAD
27 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCOON
26 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCEMETERY
23 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestPOFF
23 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestMCCLAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCreary County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wiborg: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Parkers Lake ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in McCreary County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wiborg in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2009: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWiborg-Several large tree limbs were down.
June 2009HailWiborg-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWiborg-no account filed
May 2004HailWiborg-no account filed
June 2004HailWiborg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCreary 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
Flat Rock0.9 miles16
Beulah Heights2.7 miles16
Nevelsville4.3 miles12
Greenwood4.5 miles16
Marshes Siding4.6 miles16
Whitley City6.0 miles16
Hill Top6.4 miles9
Honeybee6.7 miles16

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 WiborgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7998082The 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 516351. 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.