Mill Springs, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mill Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42633. It stands on Meadow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mill Springs quadrangle.

Mill Springs within Wayne County

On record in Mill Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Mill Springs Milllisted 1973
West-Metcalfe Houselisted 1977

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1911 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1914 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Mill Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Mill Springs quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

27 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Mill Springs between 2000 and 2019, burning about 206 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	11
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	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
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 July 2008	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 June 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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
Touristville	1.0 miles	14
Betsey	2.7 miles	11
Rankin	3.3 miles	14
Steubenville	3.3 miles	14
Frazer	4.3 miles	11
Hardwick	4.7 miles	11
Spann	5.5 miles	14
Eadsville	6.6 miles	14

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 Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888732	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 498295. 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.