Jefferies, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Southwest Anderson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40342. It lies near Pleasant Hill Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Ashbrook quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Jefferies within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1952 USGS Ashbrook quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Ashbrook quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Jefferies (historical) between 2001 and 2004, burning about 46 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 March 2002	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 March 2001	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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
Klondyke	1.6 miles	9
Johnsonville	2.5 miles	9
Pleasant Grove (historical)	2.5 miles	9
Glensboro	3.1 miles	9
Van Buren	3.7 miles	9
Ashbrook	3.7 miles	9
Sinai	3.8 miles	9
Wayside	3.8 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2566549. 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.