Four Corners, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Williamstown-Dry Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41035. It stands on Clay Lick. The Survey maps it on the Elliston quadrangle.

Four Corners within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1950 USGS Elliston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Four Corners between 1998 and 2011, burning about 50 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	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
28 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 March 2001	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 February 2011	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GOLDEN VALLEY
2 December 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant 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
Delia	0.8 miles	7
Downingsville	1.7 miles	7
Stewartsville	2.3 miles	7
Gold Valley (historical)	4.3 miles	9
Holbrook	4.6 miles	6
Jonesville	4.9 miles	8
Heekin	5.2 miles	8
Folsom	5.3 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508028. 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.