Clear Creek Furnace, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Salt Lick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40371. It stands on Stone Quarry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Salt Lick quadrangle.

Clear Creek Furnace within Bath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1929 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Clear Creek Furnace, Salt Lick, Bath County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Clear Creek Furnace between 1997 and 2020, burning about 906 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony	8
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
28 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	PICNIC
22 May 1997	Natural	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	NO WAY
9 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HWY 36
9 April 1999	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	GRAVEYARD BRANCH
8 April 2013	Smoking	1.2 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	LEATHERWOOD
7 April 2017	Arson/incendiarism	35 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	HURRICANE
7 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	TWIN KNOBS
6 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JOHNSON BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bath 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
White Sulpher (historical)	1.4 miles	10
Upper Salt Lick (historical)	2.2 miles	10
Suddith (historical)	2.6 miles	10
Lower Salt Lick (historical)	3.8 miles	10
Pine Grove (historical)	4.3 miles	10
Black Sulpher Spring (historical)	4.4 miles	10
Olympia Springs	4.5 miles	10
Salt Lick	5.0 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q122572795

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 511397. 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.