Ennis, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Drakesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42337. The Survey maps it on the Rochester quadrangle. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Ennis within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1911 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:48000
1914 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:24000, 2 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

43 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Ennis between 1998 and 2018, burning about 968 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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	13
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
26 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	300 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 1999	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 August 2008	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 July 2012	Debris and open burning	145 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GOOSE LAKE
25 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 July 2001	Arson/incendiarism	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

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
Forest Grove (historical)	1.1 miles	11
Forest Oak (historical)	2.3 miles	11
Riverside (historical)	2.4 miles	11
Mud River Union (historical)	2.6 miles	11
Knightsburg	3.1 miles	11
Browder	3.3 miles	15
Beechmont	3.5 miles	15
Davenport Landing	3.9 miles	11

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 Ennis	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5379180	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 507942. 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.