Foster, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clementsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42539. It lies near Tennessee Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Clementsville quadrangle. It stands 1,063 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.

Foster within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1952 USGS Clementsville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

46 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Foster (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 648 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	12
Recreation and ceremony	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	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
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COOPER RIDGE ROAD
9 April 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CHRISTIAN
7 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 April 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 April 2008	Recreation and ceremony	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey 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
Creston	1.7 miles	10
Rheber	1.9 miles	10
Woodrum Ridge (historical)	3.1 miles	10
Pricetown	3.5 miles	7
Boyle (historical)	3.5 miles	7
White Oak Ridge (historical)	3.6 miles	10
Clementsville	3.8 miles	10
Red Hill	4.1 miles	9

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.

Wikidata item Q14690419

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 2568383. 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.