Cedar Knob, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42602. It stands on Cedar Knob. The Survey maps it on the Savage quadrangle.

Cedar Knob within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1929 USGS Byrdstown quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Savage quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Savage quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Knob between 1999 and 2019, burning about 572 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	19
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
20 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HAY FIRE
10 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 June 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DEEP MINE
8 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	274 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
21 April 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 March 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	968 FIRE
23 March 2015	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	GREENBRIAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Knob: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bald Rock Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Deep Well-Sphalerite Occurrence	Zinc	Occurrence	Sphalerite
Deep Well-Sphalerite Occurrence	Zinc	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Clinton 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
Static	0.4 miles	11
Maupin (historical)	0.6 miles	11
Jones Mill	2.2 miles	11
Bug	2.2 miles	11
Huntersville	2.7 miles	12
Beech Bottom (historical)	2.9 miles	11
Concord (historical)	2.9 miles	11
Rolan	3.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507675. 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.