Oak Ridge, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Independence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41051. It stands on Thompson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Independence quadrangle.

Oak Ridge within Kenton 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.

1950 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Oak Ridge between 2010 and 2018, burning about 45 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Debris and open burning	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
19 March 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	INDEPENDENCE RAILROAD
2 November 2010	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHERBOURNE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kenton 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
Latonia Lakes	0.3 miles	13
Pye	1.9 miles	13
Taylor Mill	2.0 miles	13
Fairview	2.2 miles	13
Ryland Heights	2.3 miles	13
Springlake	2.7 miles	13
Independence	2.8 miles	11
Ryland	2.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 499717. 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.