Miller, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hickman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42050. The Survey maps it on the Bondurant quadrangle. It stands 285 feet above sea level.

Miller within Fulton 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.

1939 USGS Bayouville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1951 USGS Bondurant quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Bayouville quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1969 USGS Bondurant quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Bayouville quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Miller between 2004 and 2016, burning about 87 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
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
22 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	3.2 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	EIGHTY ONE
16 April 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	THIRTY THREE
5 March 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	JACKSON HILL
25 March 2014	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	TURNIP HEAD
2 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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
Tyler	1.0 miles	13
Bondurant	1.1 miles	13
Ledford	2.1 miles	13
Sassafras Ridge (historical)	2.4 miles	13
Ash Log	3.6 miles	14
Fish Pond (historical)	4.0 miles	13
Blue Pond	4.4 miles	13
Mabel	4.6 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 Miller	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690945	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 508605. 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.