Mitchell Hill, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Madisonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42431. The Survey maps it on the Madisonville West quadrangle.

Mitchell Hill within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1907 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:48000
1909 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Madisonville West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

32 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Mitchell Hill between 1998 and 2018, burning about 249 acres in total. 2 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	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
9 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	114 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIRDS NEST
6 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 2000	Natural	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TREE SWING
7 March 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins 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
Manitou	2.6 miles	14
Madisonville	2.7 miles	12
Pleasant View (historical)	3.1 miles	14
Pee Vee	3.2 miles	14
Victoria	3.6 miles	14
Brentwood	4.1 miles	14
Oriole	4.2 miles	14
Dozier Heights	4.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 498449. 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.