Confederate, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Southeast Lyon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42038. It stands on Confederate Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lamasco quadrangle. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Confederate within Lyon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Lamasco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Lamasco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Confederate between 1998 and 2020, burning about 42 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	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
14 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 August 2010	Natural	1.0 acres	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	MAMMOTH
23 July 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BARRETT RD
6 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 June 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	BLACK SATURDAY
5 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	WOODSON
12 April 2018	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HOWARD ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Confederate in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Confederate	$100,000	An NWS damage survey found that a brief EF-1 with peak winds of 105 mph tornado occurred southwest of the Lamasco community in southeast Lyon County, KY. Most of the damage was in the form of uprooted trees along Highway 274, but a pole barn and chicken coop were destroyed and a cattle fence damaged. Additionally, a house near the destroyed outbuilding suffered roof damage. NWS Paducah would like to thank Lyon County EMA for their assistance with drone footage for this survey.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Confederate	$4,000	Trees and power lines were down in the southwest part of Lyon County.
February 2007	Hail	Confederate	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyon 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
Dewey (historical)	0.8 miles	13
Eddy Bay	1.3 miles	19
Commerce Landing	2.0 miles	13
Paradise Hills	2.5 miles	19
Greenacres	2.5 miles	19
Wildwood Hills	2.5 miles	19
Palisades	2.6 miles	19
Lamasco	3.3 miles	8

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.

Wikipedia article on Confederate	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690246	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 507743. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.