Fuson, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Viper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41774. It stands on Fort Branch. The Survey maps it on the Vicco quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fuson within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1916 USGS Cornettsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Vicco quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Vicco quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

326 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 326 fires within 5 miles of Fuson (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 11,406 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 60 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	144
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	85
Arson/incendiarism	60
Recreation and ceremony	28
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	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
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2007	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MONTGOMERY CREEK
29 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JEFF
29 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	ORCHARD
26 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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
Big Branch (historical)	1.2 miles	16
Fusonia	1.2 miles	16
Cornettsville	1.6 miles	16
Daisy	3.0 miles	14
Defiance	3.3 miles	16
Scuddy	3.3 miles	16
Happy	3.3 miles	16
Viper	3.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2556939. 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.