Yorktown, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Pikeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41501. It stands on Marion Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pikeville quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Yorktown within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1890 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Vergie quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

245 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Yorktown between 1997 and 2020, burning about 11,512 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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/undetermined	83
Debris and open burning	78
Arson/incendiarism	49
Recreation and ceremony	32
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MARION BRANCH
7 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BILL KING HOLLOW
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	175 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RAYS BRANCH
27 September 2010	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RED CEDAR
25 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kewanee	0.5 miles	18
Mayo Village	0.7 miles	18
Fords Branch	1.0 miles	18
Titan Siding	1.4 miles	18
Pigeon	1.7 miles	18
Harrolds Branch (historical)	1.9 miles	18
Crooked Creek (historical)	1.9 miles	18
Pleasant Valley	2.0 miles	18

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 Q124390721

The 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 507235. 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.