Oakley Home, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Nebo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42436. The Survey maps it on the Slaughters quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Oakley Home within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1907 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:48000
1909 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Slaughters quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Slaughtersville quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Oakley Home (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 448 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
24 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TREE SWING
7 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 March 2017	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JONES ROAD
3 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins 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
Veazey	0.2 miles	14
Yarbro	2.6 miles	14
Oakliff Store (historical)	3.2 miles	14
West Hanson	5.3 miles	14
Nebo	5.4 miles	13
Manitou	5.5 miles	14
Hanson	6.3 miles	12
Mitchell Hill	7.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743538. 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.