Gum Grove, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Glens Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42741. The Survey maps it on the Columbia quadrangle.

Gum Grove within Adair 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.

1954 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Gum Grove between 1998 and 2014, burning about 271 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	11
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2002	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2002	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 March 1999	Smoking	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair 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 Gum Grove: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Williams Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Adair 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
Glens Fork	1.4 miles	9
Fairplay	1.7 miles	9
Walnut Grove (historical)	1.9 miles	10
Gadberry (historical)	3.3 miles	9
Inroad	3.3 miles	10
Chance	3.4 miles	10
Joppa	3.7 miles	10
Crocus	3.7 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743212. 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.