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Hanging Rock, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Leitchfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42754. It stands on Peter Cave Creek. The Survey maps it on the Madrid quadrangle.

Hanging Rock within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

15 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Hanging Rock between 2003 and 2016, burning about 147 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
22 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAVE SPRING
8 April 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryST PAUL FIRE
4 April 2010Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryST. PAUL FIRE
18 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySALT RIVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Lilac1.2 miles10
Eveleigh2.4 miles10
Duff4.8 miles12
Leitchfield5.2 miles13
Tar Hill5.6 miles18
Indian Valley6.4 miles12
Black Rock6.6 miles13
Clarkson6.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508173. 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.