Fiddle Bow, Kentucky
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dawson Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42408. The Survey maps it on the Coiltown quadrangle. It stands 515 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1907 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:48000
- 1909 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Coiltown quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
25 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Fiddle Bow between 1999 and 2014, burning about 373 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LONE TREE FIRE |
| 24 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BULAH 109 |
| 9 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 July 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LIGHTNING |
| 13 July 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BURNT BUZZ |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fiddle Bow in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Heavy Rain | Fiddle Bow | - | Six to seven inches of water was flowing across Highway 502. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beulah | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Sixth Vein | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Rabbit Ridge | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Charleston | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Richland | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Colitown Junction | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Oriole | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Coiltown | 5.5 miles | 13 |
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 Fiddle Bow | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14690387 | 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 507993. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.







