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Greenwood, Kentucky

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Louisa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41230. It stands on Blaine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Prichard quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Greenwood within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,636 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 77 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
Arson/incendiarism77
Debris and open burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony9
Other causes2
Smoking2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryTUG RIVER RD.
23 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2001Natural5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Zelda1.5 miles25
Fullers1.6 miles24
Potters (historical)2.0 miles24
Stringtown2.9 miles24
Fallsburg3.1 miles24
Five Forks3.9 miles24
Yatesville4.2 miles24
Louisa4.3 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2121007. 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.