Drake, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Central City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42330. The Survey maps it on the Central City East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Drake within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1909 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Central City East quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Central City East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Central City East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

81 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Drake (historical) between 1997 and 2018, burning about 2,758 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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	27
Debris and open burning	19
Arson/incendiarism	19
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	300 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 September 2002	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 1999	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 August 2007	Debris and open burning	570 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	NORTH WIND
11 August 2010	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MAGAZINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Cleaton	0.6 miles	15
Holt	0.9 miles	15
Bevier	1.1 miles	15
Sunrise (historical)	1.9 miles	15
Nonnell	1.9 miles	15
Elk Valley (historical)	2.3 miles	15
Liberty Hill (historical)	2.6 miles	15
Peanut (historical)	2.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743007. 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.