BlockHighland Springs, Kentucky
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cave City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42127. It lies near Toohey Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Mammoth Cave quadrangle.
On record in Highland 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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Rock Cabin Camplisted 2017 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1922 USGS Mammoth Cave quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1923 USGS Mammoth Cave quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Mammoth Cave quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
25 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Highland Springs between 1995 and 2015, burning about 180 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | CEDARHILL2 |
| 26 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | SANDERS |
| 24 July 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | DOYEL VALLEY |
| 3 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | HOGAN |
| 19 April 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 April 1995 | Smoking | 144 acres | Mammoth Cave National Park | JIM LEE |
| 22 March 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | CEDAR HILL |
| 5 February 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | PRIDGE#3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Highland Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65075983 | 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 508239. 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.