BlockGermantown, Kentucky
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Brooksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41044. The Survey maps it on the Germantown quadrangle.
On record in Germantown
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 1 record
- John Gregg Fee Houselisted 1980
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1915 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:62500
- 1919 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Germantown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Germantown between 1997 and 1999, burning about 18 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stonewall | 3.5 miles | 6 | |
| Asbury (historical) | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Parina (historical) | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Bridgeville | 5.1 miles | 6 | |
| Chatham | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Brooksville | 5.7 miles | 8 | |
| Oakland (historical) | 5.9 miles | 6 | |
| Gertrude | 7.5 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 492795. 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.