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Black Jack Road, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Franklin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42134. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Black Jack Road within Simpson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Black Jack Road (historical) between 2005 and 2007, burning about 36 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
12 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 October 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Simpson 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Franklin1.6 miles13
Oak Grove (historical)1.9 miles13
Sylvan (historical)2.6 miles9
Salmons2.6 miles9
Black Jack3.1 miles9
Peden Mill4.5 miles13
Flat Rock4.5 miles13
Paradise (historical)4.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742856. 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.