Mill Pond, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Chicken Branch. The Survey maps it on the Barcreek quadrangle. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Mill Pond within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1891 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1954 USGS Barcreek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
1979 USGS Barcreek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

298 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Mill Pond between 1993 and 2020, burning about 12,492 acres in total. None started naturally. 79 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	126
Arson/incendiarism	79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	73
Recreation and ceremony	13
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2

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
5 September 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	DINKIE
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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
Laurel Creek	1.2 miles	13
Tanksley	1.7 miles	13
Bernice	1.8 miles	13
Wild Cat	2.5 miles	13
Fall Rock	2.8 miles	13
Hensley	3.4 miles	13
Ammie	3.5 miles	13
Burning Springs	4.7 miles	13

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 Mill Pond	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6858375	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 513995. 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.