Ecton Pike, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Winchester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40391. The Survey maps it on the Austerlitz quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ecton Pike within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

1952 USGS Austerlitz quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Austerlitz quadrangle1:24000
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Austerlitz quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ecton Pike (historical) in 2001, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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	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
9 November 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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
Saddlebrook (historical)	0.8 miles	17
Franklin (historical)	1.9 miles	17
Winchester	2.6 miles	17
Mount Zion	2.7 miles	7
Forrest Park	3.1 miles	7
Victory Heights (historical)	3.2 miles	7
Bon Haven	3.2 miles	7
Wesleyan Park	3.3 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2508581. 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.