Jernigan Chapel, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42345. It lies near Buck Knob. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Jernigan Chapel within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1911 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:48000
1913 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1952 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

65 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Jernigan Chapel (historical) between 1997 and 2018, burning about 747 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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	18
Recreation and ceremony	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 August 2010	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DOG LADY
7 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BEECH CREEK
24 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 August 2007	Debris and open burning	6.0 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
Pleasant Hill (historical)	1.6 miles	16
Greenville	2.2 miles	16
Liberty Hill (historical)	2.9 miles	15
Ebenezer	3.1 miles	15
Powderly	3.1 miles	16
Prospect (historical)	3.8 miles	16
Hillside	3.9 miles	16
Leighs (historical)	4.1 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743018. 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.