BlockBefore

Atkinstown, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the McKee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40447. It stands on Rolling Fork. The Survey maps it on the McKee quadrangle.

Atkinstown within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Atkinstown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,809 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 46 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
Debris and open burning69
Arson/incendiarism46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Recreation and ceremony27
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National Forest448
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National Forest290
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 Atkinstown: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Indian Creek MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gray Hawk1.4 miles13
Blooming Grove (historical)1.7 miles13
Olin2.2 miles13
Mildred2.7 miles13
Bradshaw2.9 miles13
Smith (historical)3.0 miles13
Oak Grove (historical)3.2 miles13
Pine Flat (historical)3.2 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122544240The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 510321. 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.