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McAndrews, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Williamson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41543. It lies near Barney Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Belfry quadrangle. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

McAndrews within Pike County

On record in McAndrews

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

113 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of McAndrews between 1997 and 2020, burning about 13,736 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism22
Recreation and ceremony13
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBALL FORK
29 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTONE
13 August 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 May 2000Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 May 2000Arson/incendiarism30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 1999Debris and open burning100 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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
Stone0.9 miles19
Pinsonfork1.4 miles19
Huddy1.5 miles19
Morcoal (historical)1.9 miles19
Right Fork of Meathouse (historical)2.5 miles19
Sharondale2.5 miles19
McVeigh2.5 miles19
Meathouse (historical)2.6 miles24

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 McAndrewsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6799952The 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 497762. 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.