Rolling Mill, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Southeast Lyon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42038. It stands on Motley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lamasco quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rolling Mill within Lyon 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Rolling Mill (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
14 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 July 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BARRETT RD
16 June 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	BLACK SATURDAY
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon 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
Dryden Estates	1.1 miles	8
Cedar Grove (historical)	3.8 miles	8
Commerce Landing	3.8 miles	13
Confederate	4.4 miles	8
Lamasco	4.7 miles	8
Renaldo (historical)	4.8 miles	8
Dewey (historical)	5.0 miles	13
Eddy Bay	5.6 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743559. 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.