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Bordley, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sturgis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42437. The Survey maps it on the Bordley quadrangle.

Bordley within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bordley between 2000 and 2017, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 ceremony4
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 March 2007Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2012Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySWINGSET
13 December 2017Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryH AND H
15 November 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDAVE MILLER ROAD FIRE
12 November 2011Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCALI FIRE
6 October 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 October 2000Railroad operations and maintenance12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Pride1.1 miles14
Yuba2.0 miles13
Cullen2.1 miles14
Eberly (historical)2.2 miles14
Arnold3.0 miles14
Boxville5.3 miles13
Kern Orchard5.5 miles14
Sullivan5.8 miles13

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 BordleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28035720The 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 507556. 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.