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Old Linwood, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hammonville census division. It lies near Grindstone Knob. The Survey maps it on the Canmer quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Old Linwood within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

14 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Old Linwood (historical) between 2005 and 2011, burning about 91 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/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony4

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
12 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Recreation and ceremony31 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart 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
Linwood0.5 miles12
Rio1.0 miles12
Glen Lily2.3 miles12
Powder Mill2.9 miles8
Canmer2.9 miles12
Hinesdale3.3 miles12
Pike View3.3 miles11
Jonesville3.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742510. 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.