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Porter, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Stamping Ground census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40370. The Survey maps it on the Sadieville quadrangle.

Porter within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Porter between 1999 and 2019, burning about 39 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
23 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWOLF BRANCH INTERSTATE FIRE
3 April 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLEANING OAK
8 March 2009Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 October 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTHE LATIN CONSPIRACY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott 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
Biddle2.2 miles10
Josephine2.6 miles9
Double Culvert2.7 miles10
Sadieville3.6 miles9
Longlick3.9 miles9
Stonewall4.5 miles9
Mallard Point4.7 miles10
Suterville5.3 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508858. 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.