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Park, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hiseville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42749. It stands on Blue Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Park quadrangle. It stands 718 feet above sea level.

Park within Barren 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.

Photographs

7 photographs, 2020

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Sign for the Cave Land Motel in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
Sign for the Cave Land Motel in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Entrance to Dinosaur World, one of several old-style roadside attractions in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, which is also home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
Entrance to Dinosaur World, one of several old-style roadside attractions in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, which is also home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
A fairly cute, rather than menacing, Triceratops at Dinosaur World, one of several old-style roadside attractions in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, which is also home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
A fairly cute, rather than menacing, Triceratops at Dinosaur World, one of several old-style roadside attractions in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, which is also home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
A sign shaped like the name of the establishment it advertises, the Star Motel in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, which is home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
A sign shaped like the name of the establishment it advertises, the Star Motel in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, which is home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
The Guntown Souvenir Shack atop what the proprietor calls "Froggett's Guntown Mountain" in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, which is also home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
The Guntown Souvenir Shack atop what the proprietor calls "Froggett's Guntown Mountain" in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, which is also home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
The Olde General Store, which is really an expanded sourvenir shop, is one of several old-style roadside attractions in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, which is also home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
The Olde General Store, which is really an expanded sourvenir shop, is one of several old-style roadside attractions in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, which is also home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Tom's Tee-Pee souvenir shop, one of several old-style roadside attractions in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, which is also home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
Tom's Tee-Pee souvenir shop, one of several old-style roadside attractions in tiny Cave City, Kentucky, which is also home to a number of vintage hostelries for weary traveling families near Mammoth Cave National Park, one of the earliest tourist attrations in America
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Park between 1999 and 2019, burning about 124 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance29 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Smoking16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCENTER-THREE SPRINGS FIRE
1 March 2007Natural3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 February 2001Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 December 2010Railroad operations and maintenance32 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJEFFERIES CEMT RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barren 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
Hiseville3.4 miles13
Halfway3.8 miles13
Bear Wallow4.4 miles11
Griderville5.4 miles13
Goodnight6.5 miles13
Coral Hill7.5 miles13
Slick Rock9.4 miles13
Cave City9.7 miles12

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 ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7137582The 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 508776. 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.