Bayou Church, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Grahamville-Heath census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42053. The Survey maps it on the Heath quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bayou Church within McCracken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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.

1928 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
1932 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Heath quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Heath quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

23 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Bayou Church (historical) between 1999 and 2016, burning about 340 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
29 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 March 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 March 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WOODVILLE
10 March 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCracken 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
Cimota City	1.4 miles	16
West Future City	2.1 miles	16
Heath	2.1 miles	16
Woodville	2.4 miles	16
Future City	2.4 miles	16
Lamont	2.6 miles	16
Grahamville	2.9 miles	16
Rossington	3.8 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743765. 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.