McCruiston, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the New Concord census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42071. It lies near Culpepper Hollow. The Survey maps it on the New Concord quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

McCruiston within Calloway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1936 USGS New Concord quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS New Concord quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS New Concord quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS New Concord quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of McCruiston (historical) between 1998 and 2010, burning about 192 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	14
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	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
5 September 1999	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 April 1998	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 1998	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 March 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calloway 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
Poplar Spring (historical)	2.1 miles	13
Pottertown	2.6 miles	13
New Concord	2.8 miles	13
Cherry Corner (historical)	2.8 miles	13
Irvin Cobb Resort	4.6 miles	13
Old Salem (historical)	4.6 miles	13
Outland (historical)	4.7 miles	13
Boatwright	4.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743634. 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.