BlockBurkes Spring, Kentucky
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the St. Mary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40037. It stands on Hickory Camp Run. The Survey maps it on the Saint Catharine quadrangle.
On record in Burkes Spring
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Burks' DistilleryNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974 · 0.2 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Saint Catharine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Burkes Spring between 2010 and 2014, burning about 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SPENCER HAMILTON |
| 20 October 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | TURKEY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beantown (historical) | 0.7 miles | 7 | |
| Saint Rose Pike (historical) | 2.4 miles | 7 | |
| Loretto | 2.9 miles | 8 | |
| Nerinx | 2.9 miles | 8 | |
| Gandertown | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Cissels Creek (historical) | 3.7 miles | 6 | |
| Saint Charles | 3.8 miles | 6 | |
| Frogtown | 4.2 miles | 6 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122555977 | 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 507622. 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.