Grassy, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Hyden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41723. It stands on Baker Fork. The Survey maps it on the Hyden East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Grassy within Leslie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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 Hyden quadrangle1:48000
1919 USGS Hyden quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Hyden East quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Hyden East quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
1980 USGS Hyden East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

352 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 352 fires within 5 miles of Grassy (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,292 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 68 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	151
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	107
Arson/incendiarism	68
Recreation and ceremony	19
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PARGAS
10 September 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HONEYSUCKLE LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leslie 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
Dryhill	2.2 miles	15
Confluence	2.2 miles	14
Lower McIntosh (historical)	3.0 miles	14
Kaliopi	3.5 miles	15
Toulouse	5.1 miles	14
Wooton	5.5 miles	14
Thousandsticks	5.9 miles	15
Hyden	6.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2363136. 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.