Round Pond, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Simpson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42134. The Survey maps it on the Hickory Flat quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Round Pond within Simpson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1928 USGS Adolphus (North Half) quadrangle1:48000
1931 USGS Adolphus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1942 USGS Gallatin quadrangle1:100000
1954 USGS Hickory Flat quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Hickory Flat quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Round Pond (historical) between 2002 and 2010, burning about 29 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 March 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
18 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	21 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 February 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 November 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Simpson 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
Hickory Flat	2.0 miles	12
Peden Mill	2.4 miles	13
Highland	2.8 miles	12
Hop Over (historical)	3.6 miles	12
Bornes Ford	3.8 miles	12
Geddes	4.1 miles	13
Flat Rock	4.4 miles	13
Oak Grove (historical)	4.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742868. 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.