BlockFredericktown, Kentucky
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Springfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40069. It stands on Cartwright Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maud quadrangle.
On record in Fredericktown
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
- George Conner Houselisted 1989
- Round Stone Smokehouselisted 1987
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Maud quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Maud quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fredericktown between 2000 and 2010, burning about 14 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 | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 March 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Croakes | 1.3 miles | 9 | |
| Booker | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Manton | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Bearwallow | 4.0 miles | 7 | |
| Valley Hill | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Mooresville | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Maud | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Saint Catharine | 5.7 miles | 7 |
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 Fredericktown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5499218 | 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 492484. 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.