Ephesus, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Crab Orchard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40419. The Survey maps it on the Crab Orchard quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ephesus within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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 Crab Orchard quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

49 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Ephesus (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 722 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	17
Debris and open burning	13
Recreation and ceremony	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	OLD CHAPEL GAP SCHOOL
16 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COMPUTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
Chapel Gap (historical)	1.0 miles	7
Peoples Corner (historical)	1.7 miles	7
Broughtentown	1.9 miles	7
Ottenheim	2.4 miles	7
Cedar Creek (historical)	2.6 miles	7
Buck Creek (historical)	3.3 miles	7
Pine Grove (historical)	3.3 miles	7
Colliers Store (historical)	3.3 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742211. 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.