Prater, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Somerset census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42501. It stands on Allen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Somerset quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Prater within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1935 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000
1973 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

39 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Prater (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 311 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	26
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
16 September 1999	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 August 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 August 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 June 2012	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RADIO TOWE
29 June 2012	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RADIO TOWE
17 June 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LISA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Prater (historical): 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Fishing Creek Shale	Clay	Prospect
	Somerset Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Pulaski 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
Crockett (historical)	0.7 miles	10
Ferguson	1.0 miles	11
Bourbon	1.1 miles	11
Oak Hill	1.6 miles	10
Somerset	1.9 miles	11
Elihu	2.0 miles	11
Durham (historical)	2.2 miles	11
Waite (historical)	2.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2725877. 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.