Rosedale, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Mount Sterling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40353. The Survey maps it on the Mount Sterling quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rosedale within Montgomery County

On record in Rosedale

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Machpelah Cemeterylisted 1991 · 0.6 miles away
Confederate Monument of Mt. Sterlinglisted 1997 · 0.9 miles away
East Mount Sterling Historic Districtlisted 1991 · 0.9 miles away

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.

1952 USGS Mount Sterling quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mount Sterling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Rosedale (historical) between 2001 and 2010, burning about 14 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	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
4 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SR 486
21 February 2001	Smoking	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Smithville (historical)	1.2 miles	8
Mount Sterling	1.2 miles	8
Ewington	1.7 miles	8
Pine Hill (historical)	2.9 miles	8
Reid Village	3.1 miles	8
Calk (historical)	3.4 miles	8
Prewitt	4.0 miles	8
Howards Mill	4.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2491641. 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.