Boatwright, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Shiloh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42071. It stands on Little Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rushing Bay quadrangle. It stands 377 feet above sea level.

Boatwright within Calloway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1936 USGS Rushing quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Rushing Creek quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1955 USGS New Concord quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Boatwright between 1997 and 2020, burning about 197 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/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	10
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	3

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
5 September 1999	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 August 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	GINGER
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 April 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calloway 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 Boatwright: 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
	Sugar Creek Clay	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Calloway 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
Irvin Cobb Resort	0.5 miles	13
Russell Chapel (historical)	1.4 miles	13
Center Ridge (historical)	2.0 miles	13
Faxon	2.7 miles	13
Poplar Spring (historical)	2.8 miles	13
Sugar Creek (historical)	2.9 miles	13
Lone Oak (historical)	3.0 miles	13
Pottertown	3.9 miles	13

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.

Wikipedia article on Boatwright	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690136	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 487589. 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.