Liberty, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fulton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42041. The Survey maps it on the Cayce quadrangle. It stands 390 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Liberty within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1939 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1951 USGS Cayce quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1970 USGS Cayce quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Liberty (historical) between 1998 and 2016, burning about 124 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
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	SEVENTY FOUR
30 September 2011	Smoking	2.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	FIFTY TWO
24 August 2007	Smoking	34 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	NINETY ONE
17 April 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	TWELVE
9 March 2007	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	TWENTY FOUR
31 March 1998	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 February 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	19 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	NINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Liberty (historical): 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Huntingdon Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Fulton 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
Ebenezer (historical)	1.5 miles	18
Jordan	1.8 miles	18
Union (historical)	2.7 miles	9
Cayce	3.0 miles	18
Harmony (historical)	4.6 miles	9
Crutchfield	5.6 miles	9
Riceville	6.1 miles	9
Fulton	7.2 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q14690825

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 2743907. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.