McNary, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42344. It stands on Thompson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Graham quadrangle.

McNary within Muhlenberg County

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.

1912 USGS Nortonville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Graham quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Graham quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of McNary between 1997 and 2020, burning about 830 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1
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
4 September 1999	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	503 COMPLEX
19 August 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 August 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 July 2012	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LUCKETT CE
20 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	EXTINGUISHER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Gordon (historical)	2.0 miles	13
Vernal Grove (historical)	2.8 miles	13
Graham	3.6 miles	14
Jarrells	4.4 miles	13
Depoy	4.7 miles	16
East Union (historical)	5.3 miles	14
New Cypress	5.4 miles	16
Sharon (historical)	5.5 miles	16

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 McNary	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987065	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 508582. 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.