Browder, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Drakesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42326. The Survey maps it on the Drakesboro quadrangle. It stands 427 feet above sea level.

Browder within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1911 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:48000
1913 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

65 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Browder between 1998 and 2018, burning about 1,078 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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	18
Arson/incendiarism	14
Recreation and ceremony	9
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
26 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	300 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 August 2010	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DOG LADY
31 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BEECH CREEK
22 August 1999	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 August 2008	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

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
Drakesboro	1.5 miles	15
Beechmont	1.6 miles	15
Beech Creek	2.0 miles	15
Peanut (historical)	2.1 miles	15
Forest Grove (historical)	2.2 miles	11
Ebenezer	2.4 miles	15
Belton	2.6 miles	15
Elk Valley (historical)	2.6 miles	15

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.

Wikipedia article on Browder	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4975904	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 487977. 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.