Arat, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Burkesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. It stands on Lions Branch. The Survey maps it on the Waterview quadrangle.

Arat within Cumberland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Waterview quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

51 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Arat between 1998 and 2020, burning about 796 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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	16
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	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
24 September 1999	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 August 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 April 2010	Debris and open burning	24 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Arat: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Oil Shale. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Outcrop Sample For Uranium	Uranium, Oil Shale	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Cumberland 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
Cloyds Landing	1.4 miles	8
Leslie	1.7 miles	8
Ellington	2.2 miles	8
Stalcup	3.8 miles	14
Grider	3.9 miles	8
Waterview	4.2 miles	8
Judio	4.3 miles	14
Bear Wallow Ridge (historical)	4.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507408. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.