BlockMcElroy Ford, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Halfway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42134. The Survey maps it on the Hickory Flat quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1928 USGS Adolphus (North Half) quadrangle1:48000
- 1931 USGS Adolphus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Gallatin quadrangle1:100000
- 1954 USGS Hickory Flat quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Hickory Flat quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of McElroy Ford between 2002 and 2010, burning about 40 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 March 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 21 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 February 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clare | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Mount Aerial | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Eubanks Ford | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Smyrna (historical) | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Pope | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Alonzo | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Trammel | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| New Roe | 4.9 miles | 12 |
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 Q122596460 | The 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 508578. 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.