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Oil Springs, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Oil Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41238. It stands on Caudill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Oil Springs quadrangle. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

Oil Springs within Johnson County

On record in Oil Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

312 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 312 fires within 5 miles of Oil Springs between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8,289 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 68 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 burning116
Missing data/not specified/undetermined88
Arson/incendiarism68
Recreation and ceremony28
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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
7 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFALCON
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOW BRANCH ROAD
25 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySKATING RINK HILL
20 September 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryVERN HORN DR.
13 September 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2019Debris and open burning29 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMINEFORK RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oil Springs: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mjm MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shack Branch ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Johnson 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
Manila2.7 miles17
Hargis2.8 miles17
Barnetts Creek3.5 miles17
Asa3.6 miles17
Denver5.2 miles17
Riceville5.3 miles16
Leander5.4 miles17
Staffordsville5.5 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Oil SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7081357The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 499786. 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.