Beech Grove, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lebanon Junction census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40150. It stands on Prior Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pitts Point quadrangle. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

Beech Grove within Bullitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1936 USGS Vine Grove quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Vine Grove quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Pitts Point quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Vine Grove quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Pitts Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Pitts Point quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Beech Grove between 1998 and 2020, burning about 112 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
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
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
17 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 June 2000	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 May 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 April 2009	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 April 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullitt 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
Bardstown Junction	3.0 miles	12
Oak Grove	3.3 miles	12
Belmont	3.4 miles	12
Salt River	3.9 miles	12
Pitts Point	3.9 miles	13
Old Belmont (historical)	4.0 miles	12
Shepherdsville	4.3 miles	12
Limestone Springs	4.6 miles	12

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 Beech Grove	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622266	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 507476. 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.