Briarfield, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Livermore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42352. It lies near Barrett Hill. The Survey maps it on the Utica quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Briarfield within McLean 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.

1906 USGS Sutherland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Utica quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

15 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Briarfield (historical) between 2000 and 2017, burning about 162 acres in total. 2 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
17 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LONE OAK
10 June 2000	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2001	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2017	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BOLING ROAD
6 March 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean 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
Tichenor	2.5 miles	14
Nuckols	2.6 miles	14
Livermore	4.5 miles	13
Dug Hill (historical)	5.7 miles	13
Buel	5.9 miles	13
Ridge (historical)	6.8 miles	13
Reeves	6.9 miles	13
Underwood	7.0 miles	13

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 Q14690159

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 2743110. 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.