Mount Victor, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Bowling Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42103. It stands on Drakes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bowling Green South quadrangle.

Mount Victor within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1921 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
1923 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mount Victor in 2014, burning about 60 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
Recreation and ceremony	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
22 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	60 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOUISVILLE ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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
Indian Hills	0.9 miles	16
Briarwood Manor	1.0 miles	16
Collett (historical)	1.9 miles	13
Middle Bridge	2.4 miles	16
Eastland Park	2.7 miles	16
Bowling Green	2.7 miles	16
Plum Springs	2.8 miles	15
Greenwood	3.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 498903. 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.