Ritner, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gregory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42633. It lies near Abbott Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Coopersville quadrangle.

Ritner within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1932 USGS Burnside quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Coopersville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

48 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Ritner between 1995 and 2019, burning about 3,537 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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
Arson/incendiarism	18
Debris and open burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 August 1999	Natural	75 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	SIXTY EIGHT
5 April 2015	Debris and open burning	27 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CRITT KEITH RD.
4 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 April 2007	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PINE VIEW
2 April 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MOODY CLIF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ritner: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Whitley Clay Bed	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Wayne 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
Denney	2.0 miles	11
Kidds Crossing	3.6 miles	11
Pueblo	4.3 miles	11
Gregory	4.5 miles	11
Delta	5.2 miles	11
Coopersville	6.1 miles	11
Rockybranch	6.7 miles	9
Barrier	7.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 517324. 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.