Ceredo, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the La Center census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42053. The Survey maps it on the Heath quadrangle. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Ceredo within Ballard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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.

1928 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
1932 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Heath quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Heath quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ceredo between 1998 and 2012, burning about 57 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
29 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MT. ZION C
17 November 1998	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 October 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 October 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ballard 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
Kevil	3.2 miles	16
Hinkleville	3.5 miles	16
Gage	3.7 miles	10
Lovelaceville	5.4 miles	7
Ross Crossing	5.6 miles	10
New York	5.8 miles	10
Ingleside	6.0 miles	16
La Center	6.2 miles	16

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 Ceredo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5064136	The 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 507681. 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.