Fort Holt, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Camelia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42001. The Survey maps it on the Lovelaceville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fort Holt within McCracken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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.

1952 USGS Fancy Farm quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Fort Holt (historical) between 2004 and 2012, burning about 112 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
29 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 August 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROSS CROSSING
22 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MT. ZION C
7 March 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 November 2010	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CLINTON RD.
6 November 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCracken 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
Glissonville	1.8 miles	7
Milan (historical)	2.3 miles	16
Camelia	3.7 miles	16
Wurth	4.2 miles	12
Melber	4.4 miles	12
Massac	4.8 miles	22
Ceredo	4.9 miles	16
Kauffman	5.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743772. 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.