BlockEnon, Kentucky
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42041. The Survey maps it on the Water Valley quadrangle. It stands 423 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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 Water Valley quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Water Valley quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1969 USGS Water Valley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Enon between 1998 and 2019, burning about 154 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | NINETY THREE |
| 28 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 27 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | TWENTY SEVEN |
| 26 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MURCHERSON ROAD FIRE |
| 18 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 September 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CORNFIELD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Beelerton | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Wesley (historical) | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Beelerton | 3.4 miles | 9 | |
| Fulgham | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Moscow | 9.7 miles | 18 | |
| Bugg | 9.8 miles | 10 | |
| Nichols | 10.2 miles | 10 | |
| Clinton | 10.6 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.
| Wikidata item Q14690363 | 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 2743901. 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.