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Jenkinsville, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Springfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40040. It stands on Isham Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mackville quadrangle.

Jenkinsville within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Jenkinsville between 2010 and 2019, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 October 2019Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEEP CREEK
24 October 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTEXAS ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mackville1.5 miles7
Battle3.3 miles7
Thompsonville5.2 miles9
Hickory Grove (historical)5.8 miles7
Pottsville6.0 miles7
Cardwell6.4 miles7
Texas6.5 miles7
Willisburg7.1 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508333. 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.