Boyle, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42539. It stands on Calhoun Creek. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Boyle within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1952 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

49 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Boyle (historical) between 1998 and 2014, burning about 958 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 were 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	16
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	41 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STRONG BRANCH
7 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2000	Debris and open burning	132 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey 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
Rubert Ford	1.5 miles	7
Pricetown	2.0 miles	7
Evans Ford	2.1 miles	7
Red Hill	2.8 miles	9
Rheber	2.9 miles	10
Cantown	2.9 miles	7
Phil	3.0 miles	7
Labascus	3.3 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2568332. 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.