Rex, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hardyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42746. It lies near Allison Knob. The Survey maps it on the Park quadrangle.

Rex within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Horse Cave quadrangle1:48000
1938 USGS Horse Cave quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Rex between 1999 and 2019, burning about 33 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	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FAIRVIEW CHURCH ROAD
12 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 July 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	YODER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart 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
Bunnell Crossing	1.2 miles	11
Hardyville	2.2 miles	12
Pascal	3.0 miles	11
LeGrande	3.1 miles	11
Uno	3.1 miles	11
Seymour	4.0 miles	11
Three Springs	4.2 miles	11
Monroe	4.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508924. 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.