Blackwell, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Crittenden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41035. The Survey maps it on the Walton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Blackwell within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS Walton quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Walton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Walton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Blackwell (historical) between 2001 and 2002, 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
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 March 2001	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant 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
The Wells (historical)	0.5 miles	10
Sherman	1.6 miles	8
Crittenden	2.0 miles	10
Reid (historical)	2.9 miles	8
Flingsville	3.0 miles	10
Mount Zion	3.0 miles	7
Northcutt	3.2 miles	8
Jericho	4.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742185. 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.