Maple, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Saloma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42718. The Survey maps it on the Hibernia quadrangle.

Maple within Taylor 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

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Maple between 1998 and 2014, burning about 114 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
12 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2000	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 March 1998	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor 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 Maple: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Badger Mine and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Taylor 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
Badger	1.7 miles	9
Hibernia	3.1 miles	9
White Rose	3.7 miles	9
Willowtown	4.3 miles	9
Mac	4.4 miles	9
Pitman	6.0 miles	9
Durhamtown	6.5 miles	9
Saloma	6.8 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508536. 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.