Mount Carmel, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the New Concord census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42076. It lies near Egypt Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hamlin quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mount Carmel within Calloway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1936 USGS Hamlin quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Hamlin quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS New Concord quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

34 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Mount Carmel (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 301 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
26 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	9.6 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	6.5 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	MANESS
12 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	ANDERSON
30 August 1999	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
25 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
28 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	NEW
2 July 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ODELL LAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calloway 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
New Concord	2.5 miles	13
Fort Heiman	3.7 miles	11
Macedonia (historical)	4.4 miles	13
McCruiston (historical)	5.2 miles	13
Hamlin	5.6 miles	11
New Providence	6.3 miles	13
Poplar Spring (historical)	6.7 miles	13
Cherry Corner (historical)	6.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743635. 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.