Labascus, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42539. It lies near Bruce Chapel Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Phil quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Labascus within Casey 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.

1953 USGS Phil quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

50 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Labascus between 1998 and 2017, burning about 808 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
5 May 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	41 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STRONG BRANCH
7 April 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MASSENGALE
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ELLIOT
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FIRE TOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey 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
Phil	2.0 miles	7
Athens	2.1 miles	7
Evona	2.3 miles	7
Cantown	2.4 miles	7
Rubert Ford	2.6 miles	7
Gilpin	2.9 miles	7
Boyle (historical)	3.3 miles	7
Teddy	3.4 miles	7

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 Labascus	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690789	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 508414. 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.