Mook, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the McDaniels-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40145. It stands on Muddy Prong. The Survey maps it on the Custer quadrangle. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

Mook within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Custer quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Custer quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

35 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Mook between 1999 and 2019, burning about 320 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	18
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2015	Railroad operations and maintenance	21 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BALLMAN MCCOY LANE
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 1999	Smoking	13 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge 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
Se Ree	1.6 miles	13
Buras	2.7 miles	11
Fairfield	3.4 miles	11
Westview	3.5 miles	13
Centerview	3.7 miles	11
Locust Hill	3.8 miles	11
Roff	3.9 miles	13
McCoy	4.1 miles	12

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 Mook	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6907297	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 508632. 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.