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Yocum, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wrigley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Painter Branch. The Survey maps it on the West Liberty quadrangle.

Yocum within Morgan 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

72 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Yocum between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,195 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural1

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
19 September 2008Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROUTE 7
15 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 July 2012Natural6.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestYOCUM
5 May 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGREASY CREEK
9 April 2005Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestELM LOG
7 April 2000Arson/incendiarism50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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 Yocum: 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
Barnett ShaleClayProspect
Zag ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yocum in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindYocum$1,000One tree was blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts on Pleasant Run Road.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Fannin (historical)0.9 miles14
Dehart1.5 miles14
Zag2.1 miles14
Perry Bend (historical)2.3 miles14
Blaze2.7 miles11
Pomp2.8 miles14
Twentysix3.3 miles14
Licking River3.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 516510. 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.