BlockOak Grove, Kentucky
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Franklin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42134. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1942 USGS Gallatin quadrangle1:100000
- 1951 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove (historical) between 2005 and 2012, burning about 40 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 | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 November 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | WILL PAYNE |
| 12 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 October 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Jack Road (historical) | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Black Jack | 2.1 miles | 9 | |
| Franklin | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Salmons | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Hickory Flat | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Peden Mill | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Paradise (historical) | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Gold City | 4.2 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742862. 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.