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Wilstacy, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hardshell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41339. It stands on Press Howard Fork. The Survey maps it on the Quicksand quadrangle.

Wilstacy within Breathitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

133 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Wilstacy between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8,330 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism23
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
5 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2009Debris and open burning75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilstacy in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
January 2008Thunderstorm WindWilstacy$5,000Trees were blown down in the South Fork area by wind gusts estimated at 62 mph.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindWilstacy$100Breathitt County Dispatch reported a tree down across KY-1098 near mile marker 12 as strong storms moved through.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWilstacy-The department of highways reported several trees down along Kentucky Highway 1098 southeast of Jackson.
May 2004Flash FloodWilstacy-Flash flooding occurred on Southfork Road, near Dumb Betty Branch.
March 1997FloodWilstacy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breathitt 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
Press1.1 miles14
Wells Fork2.3 miles14
Stevenson3.3 miles14
Portsmouth3.3 miles14
Flintville4.2 miles13
Rousseau4.3 miles14
Lunah4.5 miles14
Noctor4.8 miles14

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 Q122547412The 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 509381. 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.

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.