Jonesville, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hammonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42757. It lies near Sand Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hammonville quadrangle. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Jonesville within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1934 USGS Munfordville quadrangle1:48000
1937 USGS Munfordville quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Hammonville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Jonesville between 2002 and 2015, burning about 83 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Debris and open burning	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
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	31 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 March 2015	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DIE RD. FIRE
19 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart 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
Pike View	1.0 miles	11
Hammonville	2.4 miles	11
Linwood	3.4 miles	12
Old Linwood (historical)	3.8 miles	12
High Hickory	4.1 miles	11
Powder Mill	4.1 miles	8
Wabash	4.5 miles	11
Rio	4.8 miles	12

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.

Wikipedia article on Jonesville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30621988	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 495517. 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.