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Golden Pond, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Land Between the Lakes census division. It lies near Oakley Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Fenton quadrangle. It stands 407 feet above sea level.

Golden Pond within Trigg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2020

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

A barn that has seen better days, near Golden Pond, Kentucky, across the Lake Barkley Bridge from the Land Between the Lakes, a bucolic National Recreation Area on narrow ridge between Barkley Lake and Kentucky Lake that both straddle the state line with Tennessee
A barn that has seen better days, near Golden Pond, Kentucky, across the Lake Barkley Bridge from the Land Between the Lakes, a bucolic National Recreation Area on narrow ridge between Barkley Lake and Kentucky Lake that both straddle the state line with Tennessee
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

28 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Golden Pond between 2003 and 2020, burning about 462 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaFENTON 26
1 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaREAL MCCOY
20 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaSPRITE
16 June 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaSOLDIER FIRE
31 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaMALONE
28 May 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaFENTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trigg County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Golden Pond: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Canton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Trigg County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Golden Pond in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGolden Pond$100,000At Wrangler's Campground within the Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area, an apparent microburst downed 40 acres of hardwood trees. Trees fell on three cabins, one historic barn, one horse barn, and one vehicle. One hundred miles of trails were closed. Power lines were down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGolden Pond$10,000Numerous large trees were blown down. Some of the trees fell across power lines.
July 2009Tornado (EF0)Golden Pond$3,000This brief, weak tornado touched down in the Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area. Several tree limbs and tree tops were downed. The peak wind was estimated near 70 mph.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGolden Pond$3,000Trees were down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGolden Pond$1,000A tree was down on Highway 68, blocking one lane of traffic.
April 1996HailGolden Pond-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindGolden Pond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trigg 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Canton3.5 miles7
Barkley Shores3.7 miles7
Fenton4.2 miles13
Ferguson Spring4.6 miles13
Cumberland Shores4.7 miles7
Blue Spring Estates5.0 miles7
Shawnee Hills5.4 miles7
Blue Spring5.5 miles7

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 Golden PondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690461The 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 508108. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.