Crossroad, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Russellville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42256. The Survey maps it on the Olmstead quadrangle.

Crossroad within Logan 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.

1950 USGS Olmstead quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Olmstead quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Crossroad between 2003 and 2008, burning about 63 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Debris and open burning	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
25 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 April 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 October 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 October 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan 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
Gordonsville	1.8 miles	8
Shed (historical)	2.0 miles	8
Justice	2.1 miles	7
Green Ridge	2.2 miles	7
Whippoorwill	3.5 miles	8
Walnut Grove (historical)	3.6 miles	9
Bibbtown (historical)	3.8 miles	8
Everett	5.1 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507787. 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.