Carpenter Creek, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Dividing Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40437. It stands on Cow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hustonville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Carpenter Creek within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Hustonville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Carpenter Creek (historical) between 1998 and 2014, burning about 289 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
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
12 September 1998	Smoking	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 April 2008	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 March 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 March 2009	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 March 2014	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TURKEY FOOT GAP
24 March 2002	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HAFLEY BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey 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 Carpenter Creek (historical): 1 prospect. 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
	Roadcut Bench Clay Bed	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Casey 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
Frey Creek (historical)	1.3 miles	8
Neelys Gap (historical)	1.7 miles	8
Ruletown (historical)	1.8 miles	8
Ellisburg	3.6 miles	8
Stapp (historical)	4.4 miles	8
Dogwood (historical)	4.6 miles	8
Butchertown	5.1 miles	10
Snake Ridge (historical)	5.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2568347. 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.