Jarrells, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42464. It lies near Stivers Hill. The Survey maps it on the Graham quadrangle.

Jarrells within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1912 USGS Nortonville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Graham quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Graham quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Jarrells between 1997 and 2020, burning about 597 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	OIL
23 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RED HILL
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GRAHAM
1 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MCNARY ROAD
26 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Vernal Grove (historical)	3.5 miles	13
Bancroft	3.6 miles	16
Sharon (historical)	4.4 miles	16
McNary	4.4 miles	13
Lone Star	4.5 miles	14
Gordon (historical)	5.1 miles	13
Weir	5.7 miles	14
Depoy	5.8 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122568402

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 2743017. 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.