Decide, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cumberland City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42602. It lies near Bully Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Wolf Creek Dam quadrangle. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Decide within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Wolf Creek Dam quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Wolf Creek Dam quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

41 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Decide between 1998 and 2017, burning about 321 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2007	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 2006	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 Clinton 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
Willow Grove (historical)	0.8 miles	11
Ida	2.0 miles	11
Abstons Corner	2.2 miles	12
Highway	2.4 miles	12
Willis Creek	3.0 miles	11
Aaron	3.0 miles	11
Wago	3.1 miles	12
Ootens Store (historical)	3.2 miles	12

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 Decide	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5249148	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 507831. 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.