Pikesville, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mount Hermon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42167. It stands on John Wilson Run. The Survey maps it on the Fountain Run quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pikesville within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1931 USGS Red Boiling Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Fountain Run quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Pikesville (historical) between 1999 and 2014, burning about 79 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
10 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 March 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2008	Recreation and ceremony	14 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 March 2009	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 February 2013	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BOARDERS FIRE
18 February 2013	Recreation and ceremony	3.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COMER FIRE
1 February 2014	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PROFITT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pikesville (historical): 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Dolomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fountain Run	Zinc, Dolomite	Prospect	1970

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Flippin	1.5 miles	11
Lamb	1.5 miles	9
Jeffrey	2.7 miles	8
Gum Tree	3.8 miles	11
Fountain Run	4.3 miles	11
Emberton	4.7 miles	11
Mud Lick	5.9 miles	8
Mount Hermon	6.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2813764. 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.