Ferguson Spring, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Land Between the Lakes census division. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fenton quadrangle.

Ferguson Spring within Trigg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1936 USGS Fenton quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS Golden Pond quadrangle1:48000
1950 USGS Fenton quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Golden Pond quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1967 USGS Fenton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Ferguson Spring between 1999 and 2020, burning about 372 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2

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
9 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	REAL MCCOY
16 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	SOLDIER FIRE
9 May 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	SUGAR
31 May 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	MALONE
20 May 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	SILO
6 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	81 acres	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	HIGGINS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trigg 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
Rockcastle Shores	4.0 miles	8
Blue Water Estates	4.3 miles	8
Rockcastle	4.3 miles	8
Shawnee Hills	4.4 miles	7
Blue Spring Estates	4.5 miles	7
Golden Pond	4.6 miles	13
Canton	5.5 miles	7
Blue Spring	5.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507991. 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.