BlockBroad Acres, Kentucky
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Utica-Stanley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42301. The Survey maps it on the Owensboro West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Owensboro quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1952 USGS Owensboro West quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Owensboro West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Owensboro West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Broad Acres between 2001 and 2009, burning about 4 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 | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 February 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parish | 1.0 miles | 19 | |
| Rome | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Twin Lakes | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Sorgho | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Mattingly (historical) | 4.1 miles | 19 | |
| Owensboro | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Griffith | 4.5 miles | 19 | |
| Saint Raphael (historical) | 4.6 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742913. 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.