Rockcastle Shores, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Cerulean census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42211. It lies near Goose Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Lamasco quadrangle.

Rockcastle Shores within Trigg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Lamasco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Lamasco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Rockcastle Shores between 1998 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	3
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
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
9 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	REAL MCCOY
20 May 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	SILO
16 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	WOODSON
12 April 2018	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HOWARD ROAD
12 April 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trigg 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
Blue Water Estates	0.5 miles	8
Rockcastle	1.2 miles	8
Trigg Furnace	2.3 miles	8
Shawnee Hills	2.9 miles	7
Blue Spring Estates	3.4 miles	7
Ferguson Spring	4.0 miles	13
Blue Spring	4.3 miles	7
Cedar Point	4.7 miles	7

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.

Wikidata item Q122597322

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 508958. 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.