Malt, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Buffalo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42748. It stands on Ball Hollow Prong. The Survey maps it on the Hibernia quadrangle. It stands 761 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.

Malt within Larue County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Hibernia quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Hibernia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Malt (historical) between 1998 and 2014, burning about 122 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 March 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	33 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 March 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	210 FIRE
13 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larue 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
Ginseng	2.2 miles	9
Jericho	2.9 miles	8
Mount Sherman	3.7 miles	9
Buffalo	4.9 miles	8
South Buffalo	4.9 miles	8
Attilla	5.8 miles	9
Leafdale	6.0 miles	8
Gleanings	6.6 miles	9

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 Malt (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6744637	The 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 2569457. 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.