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Lower Logan, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gravel Switch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40328. It stands on Landers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mackville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lower Logan within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lower Logan (historical) between 1999 and 2015, burning about 90 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
16 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOURIGAN LANE FIRE
16 February 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 October 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryAES FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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
Logan (historical)2.7 miles7
Poplar Corner3.0 miles7
Pleasant Run (historical)3.3 miles7
Gravel Switch4.0 miles6
Riley4.6 miles6
Penick4.9 miles7
Springfield Pike (historical)6.7 miles7
Shortline Pike (historical)6.9 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2566878. 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.