McCormack, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hustonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40484. It lies near Pleasant Hill. The Survey maps it on the Stanford quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

McCormack within Lincoln County

On record in McCormack

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 1 record

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

McCormack Churchlisted 1976 · 0.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1905 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1952 USGS Stanford quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Stanford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of McCormack (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 136 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
23 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HAZZLETT HOLLOW
29 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HOLE IN TH
26 June 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	75 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RANGE FIRE
5 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 April 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	POWER LINE
13 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SKY LINE CEMETERY
10 April 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MORLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
Turnersville	2.5 miles	8
Boneyville	3.1 miles	13
Blue Lick	3.1 miles	8
Chicken Bristle	3.2 miles	8
Milledgeville	3.8 miles	11
Harmon Heights	3.8 miles	13
Moreland	4.0 miles	11
Harris Creek (historical)	4.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742219. 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.