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Mount Savage, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Willard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41146. It stands on Gum Branch. The Survey maps it on the Grayson quadrangle.

Mount Savage within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Mount Savage Iron Furnace, Junction of U.S. Route 60 & State Route 1, Grayson, Carter County, KY
Mount Savage Iron Furnace, Junction of U.S. Route 60 & State Route 1, Grayson, Carter County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

161 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Mount Savage between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,590 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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 burning70
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Recreation and ceremony21
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 1999Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2012Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKATIE ROAD
21 June 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mount Savage: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hitchens WorksClayProducer

Every working recorded in Carter 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Straight Creek0.8 miles15
Davy Run (historical)1.3 miles15
Gollihue1.4 miles15
Reedville1.4 miles15
Denton1.5 miles15
Hitchins1.9 miles15
Fairview Hill2.0 miles15
Johns Run2.1 miles15

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 Mount SavageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987227The 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 508648. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.