BlockIndian Hills, Kentucky
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Eli census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42642. It stands on Puckett Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jabez quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1911 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1914 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Jabez quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Jabez quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
30 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Indian Hills between 1998 and 2017, burning about 864 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DECKER RD |
| 25 July 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 June 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 494964. 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.