Leighs, Kentucky

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

Leighs within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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
1953 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

52 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Leighs (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 629 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	12
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
26 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	300 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 August 2010	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DOG LADY
31 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BEECH CREEK
30 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 July 2000	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 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
Wells	0.9 miles	15
Beech Creek	1.9 miles	15
Little Mountain (historical)	2.2 miles	12
Carters Creek (historical)	2.5 miles	15
Belton	2.8 miles	15
Beechmont	2.9 miles	15
Ebenezer	3.5 miles	15
Browder	3.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743020. 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.