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Louden Coal Camp, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Williamsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40769. It stands on Whetstone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rockholds quadrangle. It stands 948 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.

Louden Coal Camp within Whitley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

299 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 299 fires within 5 miles of Louden Coal Camp (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,936 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 64 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 burning161
Arson/incendiarism64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined265 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDINK RIDGE
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism24 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPERMAN ROAD
12 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2007Debris and open burning70 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitley 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 Louden Coal Camp (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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Louden ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Whitley 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Louden0.2 miles16
Julip2.0 miles15
Lucky2.5 miles15
Perkins2.9 miles16
Gausdale2.9 miles17
Verne3.1 miles15
Carpenter3.9 miles16
Suttons Mill (historical)3.9 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on Louden Coal Camp (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6685933The 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 2710201. 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.