Fragrant, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Millerstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42726. The Survey maps it on the Clarkson quadrangle. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Fragrant within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1925 USGS Cub Run quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Clarkson quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Clarkson quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Fragrant between 1997 and 2019, burning about 539 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
22 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LONE OAK ROAD
2 May 2018	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	QUAIL HOLLOW
4 April 1997	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 April 2014	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DOWNS SCHOOL ROAD
2 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TIMBERLAND FIRE
19 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GRAYSON SPRINGS
10 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	170 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BUZZARD RIDGE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Rock Creek	1.7 miles	12
Skaggstown	1.7 miles	12
Higdon	1.7 miles	12
Horntown	2.8 miles	12
Grayson Springs	2.9 miles	12
Snap	3.6 miles	12
Peonia	3.7 miles	12
Clarkson	3.9 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 Fragrant	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5477756	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 508031. 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.