High Plains Corner, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the McDaniels-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40175. The Survey maps it on the Big Spring quadrangle.

High Plains Corner within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1941 USGS Ekron quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Ekron quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:24000
1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of High Plains Corner between 1998 and 2019, burning about 170 acres in total. None 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 ceremony	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 August 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 May 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ST. JOHNS FIRE
2 April 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 April 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2014	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SAINT JOHN'S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge 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
Big Spring	2.1 miles	14
High Plains	2.1 miles	14
Corners	3.4 miles	14
Custer	5.0 miles	11
Dyer	5.3 miles	18
Rosetta	5.6 miles	16
Bewleyville	6.0 miles	14
Graysville	6.7 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122571146

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 508237. 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.