Garden Village, Kentucky
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Pikeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41501. It lies near Narrow Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Millard quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 18 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.
- 1886 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000
- 1890 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1915 USGS Regina quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Regina quadrangle1:48000
- 1916 USGS Regina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1917 USGS Regina quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Millard quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
- 1978 USGS Millard quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
228 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Garden Village between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,942 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 49 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 | 79 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 66 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 49 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 30 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MARION BRANCH |
| 7 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 90 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LOWER POMPEY |
| 4 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BILL KING HOLLOW |
| 27 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | RED CEDAR |
| 25 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Garden Village: 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highway 80 Roadcut | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Roadcut Shale | Clay | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty (historical) | 0.0 miles | 18 | |
| Sutton | 0.6 miles | 18 | |
| Justiceville | 0.9 miles | 18 | |
| Lower Greasy Creek (historical) | 0.9 miles | 18 | |
| East Shelbiana (historical) | 1.1 miles | 18 | |
| Red Creek (historical) | 1.4 miles | 18 | |
| Shelbiana | 1.5 miles | 18 | |
| Axtell (historical) | 1.6 miles | 18 |
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 Garden Village | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q15221400 | 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 492695. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.











