Adamsville, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pleasureville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40057. It stands on Little Sixmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Polsgrove quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Adamsville within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1906 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:48000
1908 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Polsgrove quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Adamsville (historical) between 2001 and 2011, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
15 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2001	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 March 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 February 2001	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 February 2011	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RAISOR
15 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 November 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry 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
Sixmile (historical)	1.6 miles	9
Saltwater (historical)	2.3 miles	9
Slabtown	4.3 miles	9
Bethlehem	4.4 miles	9
Orville	4.7 miles	12
Lockport	4.7 miles	12
Fallis	5.2 miles	12
North Pleasureville	5.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2568566. 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.