Center Ridge, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Shiloh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42071. It stands on Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rushing Bay quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Center Ridge within Calloway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

1936 USGS Rushing quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Rushing Creek quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1955 USGS New Concord quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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 Center Ridge (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,660 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
5 September 1999	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 August 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	GINGER
24 April 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,300 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2010	Smoking	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calloway 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 Center Ridge (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
	Sugar Creek Clay	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Calloway 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
Boatwright	2.0 miles	13
Irvin Cobb Resort	2.4 miles	13
Lone Oak (historical)	2.5 miles	13
Russell Chapel (historical)	2.6 miles	13
Faxon	3.6 miles	13
Hamlin	3.8 miles	11
Sugar Creek (historical)	4.3 miles	13
Poplar Spring (historical)	4.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743614. 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.