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Pumpkin Center, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42445. It stands on Stevens Creek. The Survey maps it on the Princeton East quadrangle. It stands 482 feet above sea level.

Pumpkin Center within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Pumpkin Center between 1997 and 2019, burning about 43 acres in total. 1 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 ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
29 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAVES FIRE
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDAWSON ROAD
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pumpkin Center: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Fluorine-Fluorite, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hobby Titanium DepositTitaniumOccurrence
Morgan Heirs Fluorspar TractFluorine-FluoriteProspect
Phelps Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer
Princeton MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Princeton No. 2 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Princeton Sandstone PitSilicaProspect
Senator No.1 ShaftFluorine-FluoritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Caldwell 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
Princeton2.1 miles15
Crowtown2.4 miles15
Cedar Bluff2.5 miles16
Lewistown2.8 miles15
Walche Cut3.3 miles16
Scottsburg3.4 miles16
Bethany (historical)3.6 miles15
Midway3.7 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Pumpkin CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691124The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 501426. 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.