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Woodman, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Phelps census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41568. It stands on Lower Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Majestic quadrangle.

Woodman within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Woodman between 1992 and 2019, burning about 9,304 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 53 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/incendiarism53
Debris and open burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Fireworks7
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
Natural1
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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWOODMAN CREEK RD.
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHURRICANE CREEK
21 September 2010Debris and open burning46 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFERRELL ROAD
1 May 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2010Debris and open burning95 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodman in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 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
April 2015HailWoodman-A significant accumulation of golf ball size hail occurred in Woodman. The hail caused severe damage to the vehicle and roof of the house of the person who phoned in this report.
April 2015HailWoodman-Large hail damaged several vehicles in Woodman.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindWoodman-Trees reported down on highway 2059.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Hurricane (historical)2.5 miles20
Stopover2.5 miles23
Argo3.0 miles20
Majestic3.1 miles23
Camp Creek (historical)3.9 miles20
Arrow (historical)4.5 miles24
Jamboree5.1 miles20
Phelps5.6 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509401. 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.