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Daniel Boone, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the St. Charles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42442. It lies near Cedar Hill. The Survey maps it on the Saint Charles quadrangle. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Daniel Boone within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

34 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Daniel Boone between 1997 and 2017, burning about 1,440 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAN FIRE
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 1999Arson/incendiarism100 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 July 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryROCK SPARK
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTRESSLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Daniel Boone: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
St. Charles ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Hopkins 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
Homestead (historical)1.0 miles12
Saint Charles2.6 miles12
Good Hope (historical)2.7 miles12
Nortonville3.0 miles12
Romney (historical)3.1 miles12
Little Valley3.2 miles12
McIntosh (historical)3.5 miles12
Oak Hill3.5 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on Daniel BooneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5216606The 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 507811. 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.