Harpers, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Owingsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40360. It stands on Burbridge Branch. The Survey maps it on the Owingsville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Harpers within Bath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1952 USGS Owingsville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Harpers (historical) between 2001 and 2017, burning about 18 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
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
25 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 November 2017	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STEPSTONE RD
22 October 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bath 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 Harpers (historical): 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
	Clover Creek Iron Tract	Iron	Prospect

Every working recorded in Bath 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
Upper Prickly Ash (historical)	1.0 miles	9
Pittsburgh (historical)	2.0 miles	9
Reynoldsville	2.3 miles	9
Owingsville	2.3 miles	9
White Oak	2.4 miles	9
Whickliffe Forge (historical)	3.5 miles	10
Slate Valley	3.5 miles	10
Bald Eagle (historical)	3.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2416409. 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.