Quinn, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Fredonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42445. It sits by Morse Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Dalton quadrangle. It stands 518 feet above sea level.

Quinn within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1909 USGS Providence quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Providence quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Quinn between 1998 and 2016, burning about 62 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
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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
4 August 2014	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FARMERSVILLE ROAD
27 August 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LITTLE PI
26 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CAMBELL
7 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CRESWELL H
9 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FARMERSVILLE RD.
6 April 1998	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CALSSEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tom Gray Ford	1.0 miles	13
Smith Ford	1.9 miles	13
Harper Ford	2.2 miles	13
Fryer	2.3 miles	13
Utley Ford	2.4 miles	13
Shady Grove (historical)	3.7 miles	13
Baldwin Ford	3.7 miles	13
Creswell	4.4 miles	14

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 Quinn	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691128	The 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 508890. 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.