Cotton Branch, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Southeast Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40391. It stands on Cotton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cotton Branch within Clark County

On record in Cotton Branch

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Brock Houselisted 1979 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1892 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Palmer quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cotton Branch (historical) between 1999 and 2012, burning about 7 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
Debris and open burning	4

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
9 November 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 November 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GORDON ROA
10 November 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WEDDLES MILL
31 October 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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
Bloomingdale	1.1 miles	17
Allensville (historical)	1.6 miles	17
Clarksville (historical)	2.5 miles	15
Haggard (historical)	2.6 miles	17
Mina	2.8 miles	15
Midway (historical)	2.9 miles	15
Agawam	3.3 miles	15
Epperson (historical)	3.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2508393. 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.