Echo, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Summer Shade census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42154. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Well quadrangle. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Echo within Metcalfe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Sulphur Well quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Sulphur Well quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Echo between 1999 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
12 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SULPHER SPRINGS
4 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2017	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CRENSHAW CASSIDY RD. FIRE
19 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 February 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 December 2013	Recreation and ceremony	2.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JONES FIRE
1 December 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 November 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	YOUNG ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Metcalfe 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
Wisdom	2.2 miles	10
New Liberty	3.2 miles	10
Randolph	4.4 miles	8
Knob Lick	4.5 miles	10
Clarks Corner	4.7 miles	10
Savoyard	5.8 miles	10
Beechville	6.5 miles	10
Edmonton	7.9 miles	10

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 Echo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5332640	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 507904. 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.