Briar Creek, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Bremen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42325. The Survey maps it on the Millport quadrangle.

Briar Creek within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1909 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Millport quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Millport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

45 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Briar Creek between 1997 and 2016, burning about 1,094 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	19
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GAS WELL
5 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FURLOUGHWEEN
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	165 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	503 COMPLEX
28 August 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GOVERNMENT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Jagoe	1.6 miles	14
Stringtown	1.7 miles	14
Millport	1.9 miles	14
Sandy	2.0 miles	14
McDonalds (historical)	2.4 miles	14
Earles	2.6 miles	14
East Union (historical)	3.2 miles	14
Lynn City	3.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742989. 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.