Beech Grove, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hickman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42050. It lies near Wilson Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hickman quadrangle. It stands 472 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.

Beech Grove within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1939 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1951 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1970 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

37 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Beech Grove (historical) between 1999 and 2017, burning about 256 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	11
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
22 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	3.2 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	EIGHTY ONE
24 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KUDZU
24 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 June 2011	Debris and open burning	28 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	THIRTY TWO
7 June 2011	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	THIRTY ONE
20 June 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
16 April 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	THIRTY THREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Beech Grove (historical): 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Carborundum Co/ Hickman, Ky.	Graphite	Producer
Emma D. Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fulton 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
Blue Pond	1.2 miles	13
Brownsville	1.8 miles	17
Anna Lynne	2.2 miles	13
Ledford	3.4 miles	13
Mabel	3.9 miles	13
Bondurant	4.2 miles	13
Stubbs	4.6 miles	17
Hickman	4.7 miles	17

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.

Wikidata item Q14690079

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 2743888. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.