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Johnson Crossroads, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Millerstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42726. It stands on Pearson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Clarkson quadrangle.

Johnson Crossroads within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

28 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Johnson Crossroads between 1999 and 2019, burning about 244 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTAYLOR FORK
2 May 2018Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUAIL HOLLOW
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryNOLIN ESTATES FIRE
24 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryINDIAN CLIFF
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTIMBERLAND FIRE
19 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAYSON SPRINGS
14 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Huffman1.1 miles12
Peonia1.5 miles12
Meredith1.9 miles12
Conoloway2.2 miles15
Snap2.4 miles12
Skaggstown2.5 miles12
Higdon2.6 miles12
Iberia2.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508350. 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.