Millshed, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jetson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42261. It stands on Little Reedy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Riverside quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Millshed within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1914 USGS Little Muddy quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Millshed (historical) between 2001 and 2019, burning about 420 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	9
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
16 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RIVERSIDE
12 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	REGION
10 April 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JOHNSON CEMENTARY ROAD
9 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	75 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2001	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 March 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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
Greenwood (historical)	0.9 miles	14
Horsemill	2.6 miles	14
Martins Store (historical)	2.9 miles	14
Jetson	3.7 miles	14
Whittinghill	4.2 miles	11
Centhro (historical)	4.3 miles	11
Vineyard	4.5 miles	14
Temple View	4.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742341. 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.