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Oak Ridge, 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. It lies near Rockfall Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Welchs Creek quadrangle.

Oak Ridge within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Oak Ridge between 1999 and 2017, burning about 300 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry86 FIRE
30 August 1999Smoking25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 June 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2001Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Casey1.1 miles11
Banock2.1 miles12
Welchs Creek2.6 miles11
Dexterville3.1 miles12
Neafus3.1 miles11
Welcome3.7 miles12
Tilford4.0 miles11
Brooklyn4.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742345. 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.