Athens, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42539. It stands on Jonathan Fork. The Survey maps it on the Phil quadrangle.

Athens within Casey 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.

1953 USGS Phil quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

47 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Athens between 1998 and 2014, burning about 830 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
7 April 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	41 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STRONG BRANCH
21 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MASSENGALE
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ELLIOT
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FIRE TOWER
12 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JONATHAN FORK
7 March 2000	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey 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
Gilpin	0.7 miles	7
Cantown	1.5 miles	7
Labascus	2.1 miles	7
Poplar Springs (historical)	2.9 miles	7
Evona	3.9 miles	7
Phil	4.0 miles	7
Lawhorn Hill	4.1 miles	8
Boyle (historical)	4.1 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742270. 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.