Inroad, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Glens Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. It stands on Burns Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amandaville quadrangle. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Inroad within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Amandaville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Inroad between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,069 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 July 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CROCUS
2 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KENNETH BLEDSOE
10 April 2020	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIRD ROAD
8 March 2002	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2002	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2000	Arson/incendiarism	845 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2016	Debris and open burning	4.1 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GREENBRIAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair 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
Cundiff	1.6 miles	10
Chance	2.7 miles	10
Walnut Grove (historical)	3.0 miles	10
Gum Grove	3.3 miles	9
Crocus	4.0 miles	9
Fairplay	4.1 miles	9
Glens Fork	4.3 miles	9
Rowes Store (historical)	4.8 miles	10

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 Inroad	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6036946	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 508314. 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.