Monfort, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Willisburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40078. The Survey maps it on the Chaplin quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Monfort within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1952 USGS Chaplin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Chaplin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Monfort (historical) in 2001, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	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
11 March 2001	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
Brush Grove	2.7 miles	8
Pulliam	3.4 miles	8
Tatham Springs	3.9 miles	7
Polin	4.3 miles	8
Hardesty	5.5 miles	8
Willisburg	6.1 miles	8
Mooresville	6.7 miles	9
Maud	6.7 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2567749. 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.