Ashbury, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Kirkmansville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42280. It stands on Copper Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sharon Grove quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ashbury within Todd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1952 USGS Sharon Grove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ashbury (historical) between 2000 and 2016, burning about 136 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHED FIRE
26 August 2007	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 March 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 March 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 March 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd 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
Clifty	3.2 miles	7
Mays Store	4.1 miles	12
Sharon Grove	4.2 miles	7
Tyewhoppety	4.3 miles	12
Cedar Grove	4.3 miles	7
Jason	5.1 miles	12
Claymour	6.1 miles	7
Mount Tabor	6.8 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743138. 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.