Brentlinger, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Floyds Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40291. It stands on Little Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jeffersontown quadrangle.

Brentlinger within Jefferson County

On record in Brentlinger

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.

Snapp Houselisted 1980 · 0.5 miles away
Levin Bates Houselisted 1980 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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.

1907 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1951 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000
1964 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Jeffersontown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Brentlinger between 2001 and 2014, burning about 24 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MARKWELL RD. FIRE
14 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BROAD RUN
3 October 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Glenmary	0.4 miles	17
Ashville	0.4 miles	17
Fairmount	1.3 miles	15
Fern Creek	1.9 miles	17
Thixton	2.4 miles	15
Highview	2.8 miles	17
Seatonville	2.9 miles	17
Hollow Creek	3.0 miles	17

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.

Wikidata item Q122567274

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 2743826. 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.