Buena Vista, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Garrison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41179. It stands on Sand Branch. The Survey maps it on the Vanceburg quadrangle.

Buena Vista within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1919 USGS Vanceburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Vanceburg quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1949 USGS Vanceburg quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Vanceburg quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

48 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Buena Vista between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,519 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 2007	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 May 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	VANCEBURG HILL
6 April 1999	Debris and open burning	1,000 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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
Vanceburg	3.2 miles	14
Upper Bruce (historical)	4.3 miles	14
Garrison	4.6 miles	14
Tannery	4.8 miles	14
Clarksburg	5.8 miles	14
Quincy	7.0 miles	14
Kinniconick	7.1 miles	14
Rexton	7.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 517565. 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.