Gishton, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Bremen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42330. The Survey maps it on the Central City West quadrangle.

Gishton within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1909 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Central City West quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Central City West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Central City West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

46 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Gishton between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,259 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GAS WELL
5 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FURLOUGHWEEN
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	503 COMPLEX
28 August 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GOVERNMENT
23 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 July 2001	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Midland	1.5 miles	16
McDonalds (historical)	2.0 miles	14
Bremen	2.5 miles	16
Sandy	2.9 miles	14
Cherry Hill (historical)	3.4 miles	16
Jagoe	3.6 miles	14
Lynn City	3.6 miles	14
Briar Creek	3.7 miles	14

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 Gishton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19986616	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 508093. 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.