Gus, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Penrod census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42339. It stands on Lyons Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dunmor quadrangle.

Gus within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1911 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:48000
1914 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Gus between 2000 and 2016, burning about 117 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	6
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
15 July 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2012	Recreation and ceremony	3.2 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DUNMORE CR
30 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 February 2001	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Forest Oak (historical)	4.4 miles	11
Penrod	4.8 miles	11
Mud River Union (historical)	4.8 miles	11
Union Ridge	5.1 miles	15
Dunmor	5.5 miles	11
Myers Chapel (historical)	6.3 miles	12
Ennis	6.6 miles	11
Knightsburg	6.6 miles	11

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.

Wikipedia article on Gus	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19986628	The 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 508150. 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.