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Hardin Springs, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Summit census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42712. It stands on Culbertson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Madrid quadrangle. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

Hardin Springs within Hardin County

On record in Hardin Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Hardin Springs between 1999 and 2016, burning about 191 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
5 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAVE SPRING
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryST PAUL FIRE
4 April 2010Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Recreation and ceremony65 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin 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
Limp3.3 miles18
Pierce Mill3.7 miles18
Solway4.3 miles18
Vertrees8.8 miles18
Summit9.7 miles18
Howe Valley10.4 miles17
Eastview10.7 miles18
White Mills Junction11.9 miles18

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 Hardin SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690536The 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 508182. 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.