Hydro, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Smiths Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42171. The Survey maps it on the Meador quadrangle.

Hydro within Warren 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.

1926 USGS Scottsville quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Meador quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Meador quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Hydro between 2000 and 2012, burning about 53 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
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	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
7 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HAYS FIRE
8 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	16 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 March 2000	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hydro: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Smith Grove No. 3 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Warren 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
Pondsville	1.4 miles	9
Kepler	2.3 miles	9
Three Forks	3.0 miles	9
Hays	4.0 miles	24
Martinsville	4.7 miles	9
Stoney Point (historical)	5.2 miles	24
Smiths Grove	6.0 miles	24
Polkville	6.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 494867. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.