BlockPeden Mill, Kentucky
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Simpson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42134. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1942 USGS Gallatin quadrangle1:100000
- 1951 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Peden Mill between 2001 and 2006, burning about 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 February 2001 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Tennessee Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flat Rock | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Geddes | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Round Pond (historical) | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Lake Spring (historical) | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hickory Flat | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Oak Grove (historical) | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Franklin | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Black Jack Road (historical) | 4.5 miles | 13 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122546054 | The 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 508791. 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.