BlockCombs Ford, Kentucky
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hartford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42347. It stands on Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dundee quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1907 USGS Whitesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Whitesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Dundee 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
Fires near this place
25 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Combs Ford between 1998 and 2020, burning about 361 acres in total. 1 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 | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 July 2012 | Natural | 14 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BEAGLE CLU |
| 7 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 April 1998 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 17 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 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.
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 Q122572144 | 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 507736. 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.