BlockLittle Woodland, Kentucky
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Smiths Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42159. It lies near High Point. The Survey maps it on the Smiths Grove quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
On record in Little Woodland
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 3 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Moses Shobe Houselisted 1979 · 0.5 miles away- Thomas Allen Houselisted 1979 · 0.2 miles away
- Carter Allen Houselisted 1979 · 0.4 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1922 USGS Mammoth Cave quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1923 USGS Mammoth Cave quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Smiths Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Smiths Grove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Little Woodland (historical) between 1999 and 2014, burning about 133 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 75 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 June 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | NOAH BLEDS |
| 6 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.2 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LITTLE KNOB FIRE |
| 19 April 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PIG ROAD |
| 6 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 21 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 February 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos Farm (historical) | 1.5 miles | 24 | |
| Tuckertown | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Smiths Grove | 2.5 miles | 24 | |
| Oakland | 3.0 miles | 24 | |
| Stoney Point (historical) | 4.0 miles | 24 | |
| Smithland (historical) | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Loving | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Sunnyside | 5.5 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742800. 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.