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Horntown, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Millerstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42726. The Survey maps it on the Clarkson quadrangle.

Horntown within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Horntown between 1997 and 2019, burning about 555 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony9
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
22 September 2019Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONE OAK ROAD
4 April 1997Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2014Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDOWNS SCHOOL ROAD
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTIMBERLAND FIRE
19 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAYSON SPRINGS
14 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined170 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUZZARD RIDGE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Lacon2.5 miles14
Fragrant2.8 miles12
Royal3.0 miles14
Rock Creek3.5 miles12
Higdon4.1 miles12
West Clifty4.1 miles18
Skaggstown4.4 miles12
Millerstown4.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508282. 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.