Grundy, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Shopville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42501. It lies near Cedar Bluff Knob. The Survey maps it on the Bobtown quadrangle.

Grundy within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1935 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Bobtown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Grundy between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,752 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	14
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
22 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 May 2007	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 1998	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 April 2008	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 March 2001	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Grundy: 2 producers. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Pulaski Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Somerset Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Pulaski 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
Barnesburg	1.6 miles	9
Sugar Hill	1.7 miles	9
Piney Grove	2.6 miles	14
Mark	2.7 miles	9
Drum	3.2 miles	14
Shopville	3.2 miles	13
May	3.3 miles	14
Coin	3.4 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508140. 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.