Mud River Union, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Penrod census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42324. It stands on Little Hazel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rochester quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mud River Union within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1911 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:48000
1914 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

39 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Mud River Union (historical) between 1998 and 2018, burning about 753 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	11
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	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	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	300 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BEECH CREEK
11 August 2008	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 July 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Union Ridge	2.1 miles	15
Forest Oak (historical)	2.1 miles	11
Forest Grove (historical)	2.5 miles	11
Ennis	2.6 miles	11
Belton	2.6 miles	15
Beechmont	2.9 miles	15
Penrod	3.4 miles	11
Browder	3.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743025. 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.