Big Reedy, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sunfish census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42275. It stands on Big Reedy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ready quadrangle. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Big Reedy within Edmonson 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.

1922 USGS Leitchfield quadrangle1:48000
1925 USGS Leitchfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Ready quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Big Reedy between 1997 and 2018, burning about 475 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	17
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
19 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BLADDER FI
4 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SLEEPY HOLLOW
7 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edmonson 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
Roundhill	2.2 miles	14
Slate Bank (historical)	3.5 miles	13
Nash	3.5 miles	13
Huff	3.9 miles	13
Sunfish	4.0 miles	13
Segal	5.1 miles	14
Black Gold	5.6 miles	13
Windyville	6.9 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 Big Reedy	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4906177	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 507508. 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.