Mount Carmel, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Nortonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42464. The Survey maps it on the Graham quadrangle.

Mount Carmel within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1912 USGS Nortonville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Graham quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Graham quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Mount Carmel between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,579 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	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
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CAN FIRE
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	OIL
22 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RED HILL
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 August 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	205 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 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
White Plains	1.4 miles	12
Dillingham (historical)	2.4 miles	12
Stanley (historical)	2.7 miles	12
Concord (historical)	3.0 miles	12
Pleasant Hill (historical)	3.7 miles	12
Nortonville	4.8 miles	12
McIntosh (historical)	5.2 miles	12
Little Valley	5.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508641. 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.