Barkers Mill, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Oak Grove-Pembroke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42286. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle.

Barkers Mill within Christian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 9 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.

1944 USGS Clarksville quadrangle1:50000
1951 USGS Hammacksville quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Clarksville quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Hammacksville quadrangle1:24000
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Barkers Mill between 2005 and 2010, burning about 178 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Other causes	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
20 September 2007	Other causes	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	DURRETT FIRE
20 August 2007	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 October 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	18 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MURRY
2 October 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	93 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DEERE
17 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Christian 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
Saint Elmo	3.4 miles	10
Hensleytown	3.5 miles	10
Kennedy	3.8 miles	10
Edgoten	4.4 miles	10
Oak Grove	5.0 miles	10
Longview	7.3 miles	8
Fidelio	7.4 miles	10
Pembroke	7.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507453. 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.