Rightangle, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Southeast Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40391. It lies near Crow Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Hedges quadrangle. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Rightangle within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1892 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Hedges quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Hedges quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Rightangle between 1998 and 2019, burning about 197 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	4

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
24 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COPPERAS C
13 June 2000	Debris and open burning	95 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2001	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 1999	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RED BIRD LANE
27 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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
Snowden (historical)	0.6 miles	15
Rabbit Town	1.0 miles	15
Trapp	1.6 miles	15
Pine Ridge (historical)	1.8 miles	15
Midway (historical)	2.1 miles	15
Log Lick	2.5 miles	15
Goffs Corner	2.6 miles	15
Mina	3.0 miles	15

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 Rightangle	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691154	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 508938. 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.