Neafus, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Welchs Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42261. The Survey maps it on the Spring Lick quadrangle.

Neafus within Butler 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.

1925 USGS Spring Lick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Spring Lick quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Spring Lick quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Neafus between 1999 and 2010, burning about 326 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2

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
18 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	86 FIRE
30 August 1999	Smoking	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	160 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2010	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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
Oak Ridge	3.1 miles	11
Tilford	3.7 miles	11
Banock	3.8 miles	12
Welchs Creek	4.2 miles	11
Casey	4.2 miles	11
Bryant Ridge (historical)	5.7 miles	11
Dexterville	5.8 miles	12
Welcome	6.6 miles	12

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 Neafus	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122572264	The 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 508676. 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.