BlockFulgham, Kentucky
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42031. The Survey maps it on the Dublin quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1952 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Water Valley quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1969 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
29 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Fulgham between 1997 and 2016, burning about 730 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Smoking | 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 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 500 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 September 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CORNFIELD |
| 15 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MOON BURN |
| 25 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LOCK |
| 29 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | STEPHENS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nichols | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Bugg | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Beelerton | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Wesley (historical) | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| East Beelerton | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Old Cypress | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| New Cypress | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Clinton | 6.6 miles | 10 |
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 Q122550848 | 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 492602. 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.