Beals, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Spottsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42451. The Survey maps it on the Spottsville quadrangle.

Beals within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1905 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1951 USGS Spottsville quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Spottsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Beals between 1999 and 2017, burning about 107 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	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
15 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DUMP
28 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 May 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	3.1 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	REED FIRE
21 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 March 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HATCHETT MILL ROAD
15 February 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HWY 1078
31 October 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HALLOWEEN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson 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
Spottsville	0.9 miles	14
Reed	2.8 miles	14
Baskett	3.2 miles	14
Scuffletown	4.2 miles	17
Carlinburg	4.4 miles	17
Bluff City	4.7 miles	14
Zion	5.6 miles	14
Hebbardsville	6.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 486506. 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.