Bailey, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Settle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42164. The Survey maps it on the Allen Springs quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bailey within Allen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1921 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
1923 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Allen Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bailey (historical) between 2010 and 2016, burning about 8 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
7 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TOWER FIRE
17 March 2016	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COSBY FIRE
21 October 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MARTINSVILLE FORD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allen 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 Bailey (historical): 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Allen County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Allen 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
Raley Ford	1.0 miles	13
Halifax	1.6 miles	11
Allen Springs	2.9 miles	13
Settle	3.1 miles	11
Yesse	3.5 miles	11
Halfway	3.9 miles	13
West Fork	4.4 miles	13
Butlersville	5.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742845. 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.