Big Spring Neighborhood, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Sturgeon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40486. The Survey maps it on the Sturgeon quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Big Spring Neighborhood within Owsley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1891 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Sturgeon quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

227 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Big Spring Neighborhood (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,557 acres in total. None started naturally. 67 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
Debris and open burning	91
Arson/incendiarism	67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	56
Recreation and ceremony	12
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
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	WILD DOG
23 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley 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
Rock Spring Neighborhood (historical)	1.7 miles	14
Brewer Neighborhood (historical)	2.1 miles	14
Travellers Rest	2.3 miles	14
Sturgeon	2.4 miles	14
Moors Neighborhood (historical)	3.0 miles	14
Vincent	3.7 miles	14
Needmore Neighborhood (historical)	3.7 miles	14
Endee	3.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2416549. 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.