Beckton, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rocky Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42141. The Survey maps it on the Lucas quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Beckton within Barren County

On record in Beckton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Charles Penn Edmunds Houselisted 1983

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1926 USGS Scottsville quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Lucas quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Beckton between 1998 and 2014, burning about 37 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	2
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
1 April 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROCKY FIRE
12 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 November 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 November 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MILLSTOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barren 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
Red Cross	2.6 miles	8
Bon Ayr	3.0 miles	24
Rocky Hill	3.6 miles	8
Haywood	4.2 miles	10
Oil City	4.4 miles	13
Railton	4.5 miles	8
Carden	4.5 miles	13
Merry Oaks	4.5 miles	24

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 Beckton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690076	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 486648. 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.