Wolf Pen, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hazel Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41301. It stands on Wolf Pen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lee City quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wolf Pen within Wolfe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1889 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Lee City quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

131 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Wolf Pen (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,438 acres in total. None 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 burning	66
Arson/incendiarism	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Recreation and ceremony	14
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1

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
5 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 August 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 May 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 May 2001	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 May 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wolfe 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
Burkhart	1.3 miles	11
Belknap	1.9 miles	11
Rosefork	2.3 miles	11
Lee City	3.9 miles	11
Upper Gillmore	4.3 miles	11
Gillmore	5.1 miles	11
Helechawa	5.6 miles	14
Lower Gillmore	6.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2364862. 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.