Bald Hill, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Flemingsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41041. It stands on Butler Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle.

Bald Hill within Fleming County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

1951 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bald Hill between 2002 and 2015, burning about 36 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

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 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 March 2015	Recreation and ceremony	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PARKERSBURG RD
17 February 2011	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PARKER ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fleming 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 Bald Hill: 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
	Carpenter Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Fleming 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
Poplar Plains	2.2 miles	10
Tilton	2.5 miles	6
Bluebank	3.7 miles	8
Locust	4.1 miles	10
Craintown	4.3 miles	8
Concord	4.6 miles	6
Flemingsburg	4.6 miles	8
Sunset	5.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507441. 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.