Flint, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Kirksey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42071. It stands on East Fork Rockhouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dexter quadrangle. It stands 522 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Flint within Calloway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1936 USGS Dexter quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Dexter quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Murray quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1969 USGS Dexter quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Flint (historical) between 1998 and 2013, burning about 171 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
Recreation and ceremony	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Debris and open burning	3
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
25 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BRUSHY CR
2 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 March 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 March 2011	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOVERS HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calloway 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
Almo Heights	0.6 miles	12
Pleasant Hill	1.5 miles	12
Almo	1.5 miles	12
Blakely (historical)	2.7 miles	12
Temple Hill (historical)	3.1 miles	12
Independence (historical)	3.3 miles	13
Dexter	3.3 miles	12
Wadesboro	3.7 miles	12

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 Flint (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690406	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 2743626. 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.