Conoloway, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Leitchfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42726. The Survey maps it on the Nolin Lake quadrangle.

Conoloway within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1925 USGS Cub Run quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dickeys Mills quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Nolin Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Nolin Reservoir quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Conoloway between 1998 and 2020, burning about 241 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
2 May 2018	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	QUAIL HOLLOW
7 April 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WASHBURN FIRE
6 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CRE FIRE
6 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	NOLIN ESTATES FIRE
24 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	INDIAN CLIFF
21 April 2020	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KIDWELL FIRE
14 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PEACE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Huffman	1.5 miles	12
Anneta	1.6 miles	15
Ponderosa	2.2 miles	15
Johnson Crossroads	2.2 miles	12
Meredith	2.6 miles	12
Iberia	2.6 miles	15
Linwood	2.8 miles	15
Nolin Lake Estates	2.8 miles	15

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 Q122570544

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 507747. 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.