Edgoten, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Oak Grove-Pembroke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42262. The Survey maps it on the Oak Grove quadrangle.

Edgoten within Christian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1944 USGS Clarksville quadrangle1:50000
1951 USGS Oak Grove quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Clarksville quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Oak Grove quadrangle1:24000
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Oak Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Edgoten between 2001 and 2007, burning about 80 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
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	1
Other causes	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
20 September 2007	Other causes	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	DURRETT FIRE
20 August 2007	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2001	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
3 November 2005	Smoking	8.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
17 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Christian 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
Kennedy	0.7 miles	10
Hensleytown	1.3 miles	10
Oak Grove	1.9 miles	10
Barkers Mill	4.4 miles	9
Saint Elmo	4.5 miles	10
Douglas (historical)	6.0 miles	9
Fidelio	6.6 miles	10
Garrettsburg	6.6 miles	9

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 Edgoten	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197734	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 507912. 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.