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Maxon Crossing, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Grahamville-Heath census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42086. It stands on Black Branch. The Survey maps it on the Heath quadrangle.

Maxon Crossing within McCracken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Maxon Crossing between 1997 and 2016, burning about 392 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/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMT. ZION C
6 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFRIENDSHIP
2 April 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2010Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCracken County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Maxon Crossing: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Massac County PitStone, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Federal Sand & Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Metropolis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in McCracken 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
West Paducah0.4 miles22
Palestine (historical)1.1 miles22
Maxon1.2 miles22
Heath2.1 miles16
Chiles2.1 miles22
Grahamville2.3 miles16
Milburn Chapel (historical)2.3 miles16
Concord2.8 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q122569335The 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 508567. 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.