Hamack, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Paint Lick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40461. It lies near Graveyard Hill. The Survey maps it on the Paint Lick quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hamack within Garrard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1892 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Paint Lick quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Hamack (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 374 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
25 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 May 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DRIPPING SPRINGS
5 April 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 2014	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CARTERSVILLE
1 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garrard 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
New Union (historical)	0.9 miles	14
Manse	2.7 miles	14
Point Leavell	3.0 miles	14
Cartersville	3.3 miles	14
Lowell	4.3 miles	14
Hyattsville	4.5 miles	12
Paint Lick	5.2 miles	14
Hackley	5.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2564724. 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.