Britmart, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Elkton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42220. It lies near Jones Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Honey Grove quadrangle.

Britmart within Todd 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 Honey Grove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Britmart between 2004 and 2014, burning about 48 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 August 2007	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 March 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BAREFOOT
20 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Britmart: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Britmark Clay	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Britmart in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Britmart	$20,000	Near Britmart, a mobile home was blown off its foundation, and a barn roof was damaged. Near Allegre, a falling tree split a trailer in half.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Britmart	$4,000	Power lines, tree limbs, and a large tree were blown down at the junction of Highways 181 and 171. Gusts were estimated between 55 and 60 MPH.

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Tabernacle	2.7 miles	7
Flat Rock (historical)	2.8 miles	7
Allegre	4.6 miles	7
Liberty	4.7 miles	7
Tress Shop	5.0 miles	7
Bells Chapel (historical)	6.1 miles	8
Mount Tabor	6.2 miles	7
Tuckertown (historical)	6.5 miles	7

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 Q122590412

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 487919. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.