Poplar Springs, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42539. It lies near Dry Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Poplar Springs within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1952 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

51 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Poplar Springs (historical) between 1998 and 2016, burning about 795 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 were 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	15
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
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
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	41 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STRONG BRANCH
24 April 2014	Debris and open burning	41 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WATSON SAWMILL
22 April 2014	Debris and open burning	31 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FAIRVIEW CHURCH FIRE
21 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MASSENGALE
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ELLIOT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey 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
Lawhorn Hill	1.9 miles	8
Gilpin	2.3 miles	7
Cantown	2.4 miles	7
Athens	2.9 miles	7
Moore	3.2 miles	7
Lanhamtown	3.2 miles	7
Liberty	3.4 miles	7
Pricetown	3.7 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2568456. 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.