Bear Wallow, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Grassy Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the West Liberty quadrangle. It stands 863 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bear Wallow within Morgan 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.

1889 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1951 USGS West Liberty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS West Liberty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

85 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Bear Wallow (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 917 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 were 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	33
Debris and open burning	26
Arson/incendiarism	19
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	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
30 September 2001	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2008	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 August 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	UPPER LONG
5 May 2001	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 May 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GREASY CREEK
16 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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
Straight Creek (historical)	0.1 miles	14
Woodsbend	1.2 miles	14
Liberty Road	1.4 miles	14
Index	2.0 miles	14
Licking River	2.0 miles	14
Bonny	2.3 miles	14
Neal Valley (historical)	2.3 miles	14
Greear	2.5 miles	14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Bear Wallow (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4876595	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2362570. 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.