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Chestnut Ridge, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Waynesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40489. It stands on Chestnut Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Woodstock quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Chestnut Ridge within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

36 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Chestnut Ridge (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 507 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 May 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
Buck Creek (historical)2.3 miles7
Walnut Grove (historical)2.5 miles8
Snyders (historical)2.5 miles7
White Oak (historical)2.7 miles7
Greenbriar (historical)3.0 miles8
Broughtentown3.0 miles7
Ottenheim3.4 miles7
Ephesus (historical)3.4 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742208. 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.