Concord, Kentucky

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Paducah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42001. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Paducah West quadrangle.

Concord within McCracken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 22 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.

1926 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1940 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Paducah West quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Paducah West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Paducah West quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Concord between 1997 and 2014, burning about 117 acres in total. None 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	12
Recreation and ceremony	8
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
29 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 1999	Smoking	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 August 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SOUTH FRIE
6 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FRIENDSHIP
2 April 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCracken 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
Futrell	1.5 miles	22
Pleasant Grove (historical)	1.6 miles	22
Spring Hill	1.8 miles	22
Langs (historical)	1.9 miles	22
Maxon	2.0 miles	22
West Paducah	2.5 miles	22
Avondale Heights	2.7 miles	22
Cecil	2.7 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867277. 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.