BlockClifton Mills, Kentucky
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hardinsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40144. It lies near Miller Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hardinsburg quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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 Hardinsburg quadrangle1:48000
- 1931 USGS Hardinsburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Hardinsburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Hardinsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Hardinsburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Hardinsburg quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
14 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Clifton Mills between 1998 and 2014, burning about 210 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2002 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 March 2009 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507717. 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.