Little Valley, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Nortonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42442. The Survey maps it on the Nortonville quadrangle.

Little Valley within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1912 USGS Nortonville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Nortonville quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Nortonville quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Little Valley between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,251 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CAN FIRE
22 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RED HILL
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 August 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	75 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 1997	Smoking	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HOPKINSVILLE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins 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
Oak Hill	0.4 miles	12
Nortonville	0.9 miles	12
Homestead (historical)	2.4 miles	12
Mortons Gap	2.5 miles	12
Dillingham (historical)	3.0 miles	12
Daniel Boone	3.2 miles	12
Pleasant Hill (historical)	3.4 miles	12
Concord (historical)	3.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507322. 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.