Roberts, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Frankfort census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40601. It stands on Taylor Branch. The Survey maps it on the Waddy quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Roberts within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1923 USGS Waddy quadrangle1:48000
1925 USGS Mount Eden quadrangle1:48000
1927 USGS Mount Eden quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Waddy quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Waddy quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Louisville 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 Roberts (historical) between 1999 and 2010, burning about 9 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
Debris and open burning	3

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
19 March 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 March 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 November 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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
Gibbs Road (historical)	2.7 miles	13
Bridgeport	2.7 miles	16
Benson	3.5 miles	16
Broadville Manor	3.7 miles	16
Mount Zion (historical)	4.4 miles	16
Evergreen	4.6 miles	16
Kennebec	5.4 miles	16
Choateville	5.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2569608. 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.