Blue Gap, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Boston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40051. It stands on Blue Gap Knob. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle.

Blue Gap within Nelson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Blue Gap between 1997 and 2016, burning about 68 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
Recreation and ceremony	11
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	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
17 August 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 April 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 April 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 April 2014	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	NEWTON
21 April 2007	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2014	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HURST FIRE
1 April 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nelson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Blue Gap: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Blue Gap Roadcut	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Nelson 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
Culvertown	2.3 miles	9
New Haven	2.5 miles	9
Gethsemane	3.1 miles	9
Samuel Pottinger Settlement (historical)	3.4 miles	9
Balltown	4.7 miles	9
Clarktown (historical)	4.8 miles	8
New Hope	4.9 miles	9
Nelsonville	4.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507531. 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.