Oak Grove, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the White Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. It stands on Rock Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Montpelier quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Oak Grove within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Montpelier quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Montpelier quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove (historical) between 1998 and 2016, burning about 138 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
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
26 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 April 2016	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WHITE OAK
31 March 2015	Recreation and ceremony	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MITHCHELL COOMER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oak Grove (historical): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Patton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Adair 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
Craycraft	1.0 miles	10
Concord (historical)	1.6 miles	10
Christine	2.5 miles	10
Gentrys Mill	2.7 miles	10
Ozark	2.7 miles	10
Garlin	3.0 miles	9
Purdy	3.1 miles	10
Ella	4.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743397. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.