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Breckinridge Center, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Morganfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42437. The Survey maps it on the Waverly quadrangle. 1,282 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Breckinridge Center within Union County

Population over time

3 figures

Breckinridge Center fell from 1,874 to 1,282 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20001,874
20102,080+206 (+11%)
20201,282-798 (-38%)

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

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Breckinridge Center between 2004 and 2017, burning about 75 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
19 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2013Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMCLURE CEMETARY ROAD
13 December 2017Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryH AND H
12 November 2011Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCALI FIRE

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
Flournoy0.9 miles13
Saint Vincent1.9 miles13
Morganfield2.8 miles14
Waverly3.2 miles13
Chapman3.6 miles14
Boxville4.2 miles13
Topeka Crossroads (historical)4.5 miles13
McClure (historical)4.6 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 Breckinridge CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2736865The 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 1867276. 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.