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Crawford Lake, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Grahamville-Heath census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42053. It stands on Newtons Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bandana quadrangle.

Crawford Lake within McCracken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Crawford Lake between 1999 and 2012, burning about 34 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources49
6 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSTUBBLEFIELD
31 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCOUNTY
22 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesJOPPA
15 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBROWN
15 August 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesJOINER
12 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1002
26 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCARMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCracken County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Crawford Lake: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Calcium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Delta Materials, Inc. DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Joppa Cement PlantCalciumProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lee (historical)1.1 miles17
Ragland1.5 miles17
Rossington4.2 miles19
Woodville6.1 miles16
Cimota City6.6 miles16
Bayou Church (historical)7.3 miles16
Grahamville7.9 miles16
Heath8.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743770. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.