McKinney, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hustonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40437. It sits by McKinney Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Hustonville quadrangle. 201 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

McKinney within Lincoln 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.

1952 USGS Hustonville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

32 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of McKinney between 1998 and 2018, burning about 464 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LANDFILL
25 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 September 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CARPENTER HOLLOW
8 April 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MOCCASIN
2 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SKY LINE CEMETERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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 McKinney: 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
	Arabia Roadcut	Clay	Prospect

Every working 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
Geneva	1.1 miles	8
Yocum (historical)	1.9 miles	8
Chicken Bristle	2.4 miles	8
Turnersville	2.8 miles	8
New Salem	3.0 miles	8
South Fork	3.2 miles	8
Mount Salem	3.2 miles	8
Hustonville	3.3 miles	8

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 McKinney	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6801960	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 497905. 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.