Bugg, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42031. The Survey maps it on the Clinton quadrangle. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Bugg within Hickman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Clinton quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Water Valley quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1977 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Bugg between 1997 and 2018, burning about 620 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	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
7 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	500 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	POWERLINE
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MOON BURN
22 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOCK
26 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KALER
16 June 2015	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COMBINE
9 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hickman 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
Nichols	2.2 miles	10
Old Cypress	2.7 miles	10
Fulgham	3.1 miles	10
New Cypress	3.2 miles	10
Clinton	4.6 miles	10
Spring Hill	4.8 miles	10
New Chapel (historical)	5.8 miles	18
Beulah	6.1 miles	9

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 Bugg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690184	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 2743893. 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.