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Wolverine, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Oakdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41339. It lies in Wolverine Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Wolverine within Breathitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

202 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Wolverine between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6,919 acres in total. None started naturally. 29 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 burning106
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Arson/incendiarism29
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt 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 Wolverine: 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
Hillside RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

15 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolverine in 15 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 flood, 2 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
May 2009Flash FloodWolverine$100,000Six to seven feet of water was covering Ky Hwy 30. Two single wide trailers were seen floating by. One double wide was in the middle of the flood waters and rescuers were having difficulty reaching the occupants. Highway 30 W was closed near the detention center.
February 2018FloodWolverine$10,000A portion of Highway 476 was flooded near Lost Creek due to Troublesome Creek coming out of its banks. A portion of Wolverine Road was flooded due to the North Fork of the Kentucky River overflowing its banks. Kentucky Highway 541 was under water near Jackson. A car was stranded in the flood water near the Kentucky Mountain Bible College in this same location.
February 2015FloodWolverine$1,000Wolverine Rd was under water near where it intersects Hwy 30 near Jackson.
April 2014FloodWolverine$1,000A residence along Hwy 540 in Strong Fork had standing water in the yard. The home owners reported that the creek nearby was several feet out of its banks.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWolverine-Social media report of a tree down on Privett Lane in the Wolverine area of Breathitt County.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWolverine-A NWS employee reported a 3-inch diameter tree limb blown down along Oakwood Drive.
April 2021HailWolverine-A retired NWS employee reported up to penny-sized hail in the Wolverine community.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWolverine-Dispatch reported trees down in and around Jackson, from Wolverine Road to Manns Road.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWolverine-A tree and power lines were blown down on Wolvervine Rd. next to Chestnut Gap Rd.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWolverine-Several large limbs were down.
February 2003Flash FloodWolverine-Highway 3193 was flooded.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWolverine-Several large tree limbs were down.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindWolverine-One tree was down.
May 2004HailWolverine-no account filed
May 2004Flash FloodWolverine-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
Fivemile0.9 miles14
Frozen Creek1.0 miles14
Elkatawa1.9 miles14
Panhandle2.1 miles14
Jackson2.3 miles14
Lawson3.0 miles14
Keck3.1 miles14
Vancleve3.2 miles13

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 WolverineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8030531The 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 509398. 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.