Bee, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Munfordville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42729. The Survey maps it on the Cub Run quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Bee within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1925 USGS Cub Run quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Cub Run quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Cub Run quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Bee between 1993 and 2018, burning about 83 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 April 2010	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 April 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 April 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Mammoth Cave National Park	CENTER POINT
12 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart 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
Cub Run	2.8 miles	13
Tom Johns Crossing	3.5 miles	22
Big Windy	3.5 miles	13
Winesap	3.9 miles	13
Dogcreek	4.2 miles	15
Roseburg	4.2 miles	13
Forestville	4.7 miles	11
Macon	5.5 miles	13

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 Bee	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4879490	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 507473. 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.