Carters Creek, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Rosewood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42345. It stands on Carters Creek. The Survey maps it on the Drakesboro quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Carters Creek within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1911 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:48000
1913 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Carters Creek (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 477 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
Recreation and ceremony	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
26 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 August 2010	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DOG LADY
7 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BEECH CREEK
30 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 June 2012	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHORT BLAC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Little Mountain (historical)	1.8 miles	12
Wells	2.4 miles	15
Leighs (historical)	2.5 miles	15
Rosewood	3.5 miles	12
Pleasant Hill (historical)	3.5 miles	16
Greenbriar (historical)	4.0 miles	14
Beech Creek	4.3 miles	15
Jernigan Chapel (historical)	4.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742991. 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.