Blue Grass, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Boonesborough-White Hall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40475. The Survey maps it on the Richmond North quadrangle.

Blue Grass within Madison County

On record in Blue Grass

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Mt. Pleasant Christian Churchlisted 1989 · 0.8 miles away
Tates Creek Baptist Churchlisted 1989 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1892 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Richmond North quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Richmond North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Blue Grass between 1999 and 2017, burning about 80 acres in total. 1 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
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
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 June 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 March 2001	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 February 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	28 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HIGHWATER LN
20 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 November 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	EKU-FM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Redhouse	3.5 miles	16
Stringtown	4.5 miles	15
Valley View	5.1 miles	15
Boonesborough	5.4 miles	15
Million	5.4 miles	15
Hillcrest	5.9 miles	16
Baldwin	5.9 miles	15
Arlington	6.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 517011. 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.