Hecla, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Madisonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42410. The Survey maps it on the Madisonville West quadrangle. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Hecla within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1907 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:48000
1909 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Madisonville West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

29 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Hecla between 1998 and 2017, burning about 288 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	2
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
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	B & K SAWMILL
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LABOR
20 August 2007	Debris and open burning	74 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	114 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIRDS NEST
23 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 July 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROCK SPARK
24 May 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	EARLINGTON
8 April 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins 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
West Side Heights	0.6 miles	14
Wesco	1.0 miles	14
Brentwood	1.1 miles	14
Earlington	1.1 miles	14
Dozier Heights	1.3 miles	14
Pee Vee	1.7 miles	14
Victoria	1.8 miles	14
Grapevine	2.4 miles	12

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 Hecla	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690572	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 493995. 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.