Hollow Bill, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Lewisburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42256. The Survey maps it on the Dunmor quadrangle. It stands 466 feet above sea level.

Hollow Bill within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1911 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:48000
1914 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Hollow Bill between 1997 and 2016, burning about 139 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
4 September 2008	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 March 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2011	Recreation and ceremony	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHEET ROCK
22 March 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan 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
Pogue (historical)	1.0 miles	11
Diamond Springs	1.6 miles	11
Agnes	1.8 miles	12
Whiskey Bay	2.4 miles	12
Whispering Pines	3.1 miles	12
Wolf Lick	3.1 miles	11
Deer Lick	3.8 miles	12
Beechland	4.1 miles	11

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 Hollow Bill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5881713	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 508266. 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.