Linwood, Kentucky

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.

• 1925 USGS Cub Run quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Dickeys Mills quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS Nolin Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS Nolin Reservoir quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Linwood between 1998 and 2020, burning about 239 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Ponderosa
• Conoloway
• Nolin Lake Estates
• Anneta
• Dug Hill
• Iberia

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508469. 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.