Milan, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Camelia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42086. The Survey maps it on the Heath quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Milan within McCracken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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.

1928 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
1932 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Heath quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Heath quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Milan (historical) between 1997 and 2012, burning about 96 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	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
28 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MT. ZION C
7 March 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 November 2010	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CLINTON RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCracken 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
Glissonville	1.3 miles	7
Camelia	1.5 miles	16
Fort Holt (historical)	2.3 miles	7
Milburn Chapel (historical)	3.4 miles	16
Massac	3.4 miles	22
Ceredo	3.4 miles	16
Lamont	3.5 miles	16
Future City	3.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743785. 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.