Fiskburg, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Piner-Visalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41063. The Survey maps it on the Walton quadrangle.

Fiskburg within Kenton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS Walton quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Walton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Walton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fiskburg in 2000, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	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
3 March 2000	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kenton 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
Piner	2.1 miles	10
Morning View	3.1 miles	11
Alexander	4.3 miles	11
Bracht	4.4 miles	10
Atwood	4.6 miles	10
Kenton	4.8 miles	11
White Villa	5.6 miles	13
Nicholson	6.8 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.

Wikipedia article on Fiskburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30682862	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 492144. 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.