Alberta, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Berry West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40370. The Survey maps it on the Breckinridge quadrangle.

Alberta within Harrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

1929 USGS Cynthiana quadrangle1:48000
1934 USGS Cynthiana quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Breckinridge quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Alberta between 2000 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 March 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 November 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COPPAGE PIKE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison 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
Rutland	3.3 miles	7
Connersville	3.5 miles	7
White Oak (historical)	4.7 miles	7
Hinton	4.9 miles	9
Renaker	5.0 miles	7
Lees Lick	5.3 miles	9
Breckinridge	5.8 miles	7
Broadwell	7.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507380. 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.