Zelda, Kentucky

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Louisa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41129. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Prichard quadrangle.

Zelda within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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.

1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
1911 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:48000
1913 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1939 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Prichard quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Prichard quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Zelda between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,634 acres in total. None started naturally. 71 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/incendiarism	71
Debris and open burning	60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	10
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
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
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 May 1992	Debris and open burning	15 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	LOCK HILL
1 May 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
1 May 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	UPPER GRAGSTON CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Greenwood (historical)	1.5 miles	25
Fullers	2.7 miles	24
Potters (historical)	3.3 miles	24
Mouth of Bear (historical)	3.3 miles	25
Rockville (historical)	3.4 miles	25
Buchanan	3.4 miles	25
Stringtown	3.6 miles	24
Fallsburg	3.9 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509426. 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.