Bunker Hill, Kentucky

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Middletown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40311. It stands on Plum Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Middletown quadrangle.

Bunker Hill within Bourbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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 North Middletown quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bunker Hill between 2000 and 2011, burning about 40 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
25 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SR 486
7 March 2000	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 March 2011	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROGERS MILL
20 March 2011	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	AARONS RUN
7 February 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 February 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 November 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bourbon 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 Bunker Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Donaldson Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Bourbon 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
Plum	1.4 miles	5
Little Rock	2.9 miles	5
North Middletown	5.4 miles	5
Jackstown	6.1 miles	5
Blacks Crossroads	8.9 miles	6
Stony Point	10.0 miles	7
Escondida	11.7 miles	8
Millersburg	11.9 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507617. 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.