Billows, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It lies in ZIP code area 40741. It stands on Pine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Billows quadrangle.

Billows within Laurel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1893 USGS London quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS London quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Billows quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Billows between 1993 and 2019, burning about 2,162 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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
Arson/incendiarism	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	484 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	ROCKCASTLE FIRE
28 July 1993	Natural	3.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	not named
17 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	BALL CEMETARY
24 June 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	WHITE OAK
18 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	165 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BELL FIRE
2 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	120 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	POISON HONEY
1 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	36 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	BILLOWS
9 April 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	TWIN POND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Bernstadt

Every fire recorded in Laurel County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Billows: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Highway 80 Sandstone Pit	Silica	Prospect
	Laurel County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Laurel 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
Bernstadt	5.5 miles	16
Hazel Patch	7.5 miles	16
East Bernstadt	9.6 miles	15
Green Mountain (historical)	10.1 miles	15
Pittsburg	10.2 miles	15
Symbol	11.0 miles	15
Hightop	11.1 miles	14
Lamero	11.5 miles	15

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 Q122546797

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 510721. 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.