Burgess, Kentucky

9 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 42039. The Survey maps it on the Fancy Farm quadrangle.

Burgess within Hickman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Fancy Farm quadrangle1:62500
1952 USGS Fancy Farm quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1977 USGS Fancy Farm quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

27 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Burgess between 1998 and 2020, burning about 210 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	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 1999	Smoking	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 1999	Smoking	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	339 NORTH
7 March 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	OUTLAW DE
7 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hickman 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 Burgess: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	S.S. Campbell Farm Prospect	Clay	Occurrence

Every working 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
Beulah	2.3 miles	9
Old Cypress	4.1 miles	10
Nichols	4.5 miles	10
New Cypress	5.3 miles	10
Bugg	6.2 miles	10
Fulgham	7.1 miles	10
Spring Hill	7.5 miles	10
Tar Heel	10.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743894. 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.