BlockZoe, Kentucky
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Beattyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41397. It stands on Cowan Fork. The Survey maps it on the Zachariah quadrangle. It stands 1,145 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Beattyville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Zachariah quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Zachariah quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
141 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Zoe between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,659 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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 burning | 52 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 27 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | FIXER |
| 21 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GRIFFEN BRANCH |
| 15 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 200 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zoe in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Flash Flood | Zoe | $1,000 | Heavy rainfall triggered mudslides which damaged a trailer off HWY 11 on Post Office Rd. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Zoe | - | A social media post showed a tree down near the intersection of KY-11 and Fixer Road, just north of the Zoe community. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Zoe | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Zoe | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Zoe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8073248 | 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 516536. 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.