North Benson Hills, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Christianburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40003. It stands on Goose Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Pleasureville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

North Benson Hills within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1928 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:48000
1932 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS North Pleasureville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of North Benson Hills (historical) between 1999 and 2014, burning about 54 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	5
Debris and open burning	3
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
15 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 April 2014	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COW PIE
27 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 March 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 March 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby 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
Jacksonville	1.0 miles	10
Consolation	1.8 miles	10
Hatton	2.3 miles	13
Bagdad	2.6 miles	10
Old Christianburg	4.3 miles	10
Christianburg	4.9 miles	10
Elmburg	5.4 miles	10
Peytona	6.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2567239. 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.