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Graves County Line, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Benton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42066. It stands on Soldier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oak Level quadrangle.

Graves County Line within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Graves County Line between 1998 and 2017, burning about 211 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOLO ROADSIDE
24 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 August 2012Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTRACE CREE
6 March 2010Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2014Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPRATHER RD.
21 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Graves County Line: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Ray Branch Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Backusburg ClayClayProspect
Kirk Ridge Clay ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in Marshall 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
Brewers2.5 miles12
Vanzora (historical)3.7 miles12
Harvey4.3 miles12
Jackson (historical)4.9 miles12
Woodall (historical)5.1 miles12
Oak Level6.4 miles12
Pleasant Valley (historical)6.7 miles12
Yancy Darnell (historical)7.7 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122560942The 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 2743714. 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.