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Williamsport, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Paintsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41271. It stands on Left Fork Twomile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Offutt quadrangle. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Williamsport within Johnson County

On record in Williamsport

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

243 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Williamsport between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,067 acres in total. None started naturally. 52 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 burning87
Missing data/not specified/undetermined67
Arson/incendiarism52
Recreation and ceremony34
Smoking1
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
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2019Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOMAHAWK
25 September 2008Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2007Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2019Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBARBER BRANCH III

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Williamsport: 2 prospects. 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
Greasy Creek Clay BedClayProspect
Whippoorwill Branch ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamsport in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWilliamsport$2,000Two trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2014Flash FloodWilliamsport$1,000Flash flooding occurred as a creek overflowed its banks onto a road in Williamsport.
August 2014Flash FloodWilliamsport$1,000A section of a road in Williamsport, from the bottom of 2 Mile Hill to the Meade Elementary School, was covered by flood water that was flowing across the road.
June 2000FloodWilliamsport$1,000Heavy rains caused creeks to run high and a culvert was washed out and water ran over the road.
March 2021Debris FlowWilliamsport-A mudslide is blocking one lane of KY-40 in the community of Williamsport.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWilliamsport-Trees were blown down on KY Hwy 40.
May 2001HailWilliamsport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Meally1.7 miles16
Thelma1.9 miles17
Offutt2.0 miles16
Tutor Key2.6 miles17
Thealka3.2 miles17
Dawkins3.6 miles17
West Van Lear3.6 miles17
Van Lear3.7 miles17

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 WilliamsportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8021257The 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 506836. 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.