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Cedarville, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Elkhorn City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41522. It stands on Left Fork Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elkhorn City quadrangle. 52 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Cedarville within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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.

Fires near this place

181 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Cedarville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 13,698 acres in total. None started naturally. 51 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 burning54
Arson/incendiarism51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Recreation and ceremony24
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1995Other causes8.0 acresVirginia Department of Forestrynot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHONEY FORK
28 September 2020Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROUTE 80
19 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOHN MOORES BRANCH
26 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 July 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 May 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreVirginia Department of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined210 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDUNLEARY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cedarville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Elkhorn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Johnson MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pike 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Beaver Creek (historical)0.9 miles20
Mikegrady1.3 miles20
Beaver Bottom1.9 miles20
Elkhorn City1.9 miles20
Federal2.0 miles20
Honey Fork2.1 miles20
Dunleary2.1 miles20
Ferrell (historical)2.2 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on CedarvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2222153The 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 1669495. 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.