Fentress McMahan, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Short Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40119. It stands on Cave Creek. The Survey maps it on the McDaniels quadrangle.

Fentress McMahan within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1953 USGS Mc Daniels quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Mc Daniels quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Fentress McMahan between 1999 and 2017, burning about 149 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TICK RIDGE
25 September 1999	Smoking	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2015	Railroad operations and maintenance	21 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BALLMAN MCCOY LANE
24 July 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PATRIOT SH
3 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SAND KNOB CHURCH FIRE
19 April 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RAFFO VILLA
10 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	59 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Falling Branch	0.7 miles	12
Hickory Corner	2.5 miles	11
Indian Valley	3.4 miles	12
Concord	3.5 miles	12
Short Creek	5.4 miles	12
Duff	5.6 miles	12
Tousey	6.9 miles	11
Hites Falls	7.0 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.

Wikidata item Q122596162

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 507988. 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.