BlockPoplar Grove, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sacramento census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42371. The Survey maps it on the Sacramento quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1909 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Poplar Grove between 2000 and 2019, burning about 48 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MILE MARKE |
| 13 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 October 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 October 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | POPCORN FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poplar Grove in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Poplar Grove | - | Hail estimated to penny size was reported via mPING from the northwestern edge of a hail core moving northeastward in McLean 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pack (historical) | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Semiway | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Station | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Stringtown (historical) | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Shutts (historical) | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Sacramento | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Worthington Chapel (historical) | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Rumsey | 5.1 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 501107. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.