Macedonia, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the New Concord census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42049. It stands on Bullfrog Branch. The Survey maps it on the New Concord quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Macedonia within Calloway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1936 USGS New Concord quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS New Concord quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS New Concord quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS New Concord quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

27 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Macedonia (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 548 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
9 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	28 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	9.6 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	6.5 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	MANESS
14 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
30 August 1999	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 2007	Smoking	311 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	CLAYTON TOWN INCIDENT
11 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	SWEATT
15 April 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	PACE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calloway County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Macedonia (historical): 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Blood River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tennessee Asphalt Company #2 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Tennessee Asphalt Company No. 2 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Calloway 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
New Providence	2.4 miles	13
New Concord	3.6 miles	13
Mount Carmel (historical)	4.4 miles	11
Craigtown (historical)	4.4 miles	13
Cherry Corner (historical)	5.1 miles	13
Stone (historical)	5.3 miles	13
Locust Grove (historical)	5.4 miles	13
McCruiston (historical)	5.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743633. 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.