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Hinton, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Berry West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41010. The Survey maps it on the Sadieville quadrangle.

Hinton within Harrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hinton between 2009 and 2019, burning about 29 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning2

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
3 April 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLEANING OAK
25 April 2009Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison 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
Rutland4.3 miles7
Alberta4.9 miles7
Renaker5.5 miles7
Breckinridge8.1 miles7
Colemansville8.1 miles9
Connersville8.2 miles7
White Oak (historical)8.5 miles7
Berry8.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508251. 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.