Myers Chapel, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Penrod census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42324. It stands on Pryor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rosewood quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Myers Chapel within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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 Drakesboro quadrangle1:48000
1913 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Rosewood quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Rosewood quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

38 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Myers Chapel (historical) between 1997 and 2016, burning about 206 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	15
Debris and open burning	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
4 September 2008	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 May 1999	Recreation and ceremony	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 2016	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JESS WINN ROAD

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
Penrod	1.6 miles	11
Union Ridge	2.5 miles	15
Dunmor	2.8 miles	11
Little Mountain (historical)	3.3 miles	12
Wells	3.5 miles	15
Rosewood	3.6 miles	12
Belton	3.7 miles	15
Leighs (historical)	4.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743026. 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.