Fies, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Madisonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42431. The Survey maps it on the Millport quadrangle. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Fies within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1909 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Millport quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Millport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

23 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Fies between 1999 and 2017, burning about 850 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
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GAS WELL
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	165 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	IKE
3 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	2 FENCE
24 August 2008	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 July 2012	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BLADELINE
30 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins 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
Anton	2.3 miles	12
Liberty (historical)	3.8 miles	12
East Diamond (historical)	4.1 miles	12
Grapevine	6.1 miles	12
Madisonville	6.6 miles	12
Flat Creek (historical)	6.6 miles	12
Victoria	7.2 miles	14
Dozier Heights	7.3 miles	14

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 Fies	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690392	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 492068. 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.