Mount Pisgah, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Coopersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42633. It lies near Dobbs Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Parmleysville quadrangle.

Mount Pisgah within Wayne County

On record in Mount Pisgah

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Adkins-Hurt Milllisted 1977

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1934 USGS Pall Mall quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Parmleysville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pisgah between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,694 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
28 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	280 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	PARKER MTN. 2
26 September 2007	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 August 2008	Debris and open burning	149 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIG PILOT ROCK
17 June 2007	Natural	50 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	PARKER MTN.
10 June 2007	Debris and open burning	197 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 1995	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	4-H
4 April 2020	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PARMLEYSVILLE ROAD
11 April 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area	GARBAGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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
Parmleysville	3.7 miles	8
Burfield	4.8 miles	8
Griffin	5.5 miles	9
Slickford	5.9 miles	8
Jimtown	6.3 miles	8
Rockybranch	6.8 miles	9
Sumpter	7.2 miles	14
Low Gap	7.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 514105. 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.