McCauley, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Raywick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40060. It stands on Pound Run. The Survey maps it on the Raywick quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

McCauley within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Raywick quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of McCauley (historical) between 2001 and 2019, burning about 231 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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	4
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	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
5 March 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 March 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GLEANINGS RD. FIRE
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 February 2016	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HAZY DOWNS RD. FIRE
27 February 2012	Debris and open burning	39 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SULPHER LI
12 November 2001	Smoking	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 McCauley (historical): 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Rolling Fork Clay Bed	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Sulpher Lick Creek (historical)	0.9 miles	8
Highview (historical)	1.5 miles	9
Raywick	3.0 miles	8
Dant	4.2 miles	8
Saint Francis	4.4 miles	8
Downs (historical)	4.8 miles	8
Horseshoe Bend (historical)	4.8 miles	8
Cherry Run (historical)	5.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742297. 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.