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Clarktown, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the New Haven census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40051. The Survey maps it on the Loretto quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Clarktown within Nelson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Clarktown (historical) between 1997 and 2016, burning about 73 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 ceremony5
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2

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
24 April 2014Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryNEWTON
15 April 1997Smoking8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHALISY FIRE
11 March 2001Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 February 2012Debris and open burning39 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySULPHER LI
8 November 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPASCAL BALLARD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nelson 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 Clarktown (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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Blue Gap RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Nelson 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
Samuel Pottinger Settlement (historical)2.4 miles9
New Hope2.5 miles9
Gethsemane3.4 miles9
Culvertown4.3 miles9
Blue Gap4.8 miles9
Greenbrier4.8 miles8
Balltown5.5 miles9
New Haven5.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742382. 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.