Cross Road, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Land Between the Lakes census division. It stands on Little Carmack Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eddyville quadrangle. It stands 466 feet above sea level.

Cross Road within Lyon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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.

1928 USGS Eddyville quadrangle1:48000
1931 USGS Eddyville quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Eddyville quadrangle1:48000
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Eddyville quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Eddyville quadrangle1:62500
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Eddyville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

26 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Cross Road between 1997 and 2020, burning about 328 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	WILCOX CEMETERY
10 September 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LAM HEAT
14 August 2010	Natural	1.0 acres	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	MAMMOTH
22 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 June 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	BLACK SATURDAY
17 May 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	GRAFFITI
5 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Carmack	1.3 miles	19
Indian Hills	2.3 miles	19
Buena Vista Estates	2.5 miles	19
Wildwood Hills	2.8 miles	19
Eden Bay	3.0 miles	19
Paradise Hills	3.0 miles	19
Palisades	3.5 miles	19
Kuttawa	3.8 miles	20

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 Q14690261

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 507786. 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.