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McHenry, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the McHenry-Rockport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42320. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle. 369 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

McHenry within Ohio County

Population over time

3 figures

McHenry fell from 417 to 369 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000417
2010388-29 (-7%)
2020369-19 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

52 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of McHenry between 1998 and 2011, burning about 2,156 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry70 FIRE
13 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio 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
Simmons2.0 miles12
Beaver Dam2.8 miles11
Ken Wye3.0 miles12
Nineteen4.0 miles12
Echols4.0 miles12
Centertown4.6 miles11
Scottown4.7 miles12
Hartford4.8 miles11

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 McHenryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3182279The 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 497881. 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.