Decker, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Welchs Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42721. It stands on Welchs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ready quadrangle.

Decker within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1922 USGS Leitchfield quadrangle1:48000
1925 USGS Leitchfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Ready quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Decker between 1999 and 2017, burning about 211 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
24 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MORGANTOWN RD.
19 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BLADDER FI
22 April 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HUDSON RD.
28 March 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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 Decker: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Buck Creek Clay	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Butler 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
Bryant Ridge (historical)	2.2 miles	11
Lee	2.8 miles	13
Grancer	3.7 miles	11
Love	4.2 miles	11
Tilford	4.2 miles	11
Welchs Creek	4.4 miles	11
Brooklyn	5.7 miles	11
Centhro (historical)	5.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507832. 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.