Rural, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Sidney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41514. It stands on Swinge Camp Branch. The Survey maps it on the Williamson quadrangle.

Rural within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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.

1887 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

148 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Rural between 1993 and 2019, burning about 12,276 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 40 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
Debris and open burning	68
Arson/incendiarism	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	11
Fireworks	9
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2007	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2001	Natural	22 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	COLEMAN BR.
6 May 2008	Debris and open burning	140 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FROG POND
2 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 May 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	BUFFALO CREEK AT COIN FORK
9 April 2013	Debris and open burning	85 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROCKHOUSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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
Mouth of Long Fork (historical)	1.1 miles	23
Hatfield	1.5 miles	23
Slatter Branch (historical)	2.8 miles	23
Turkey Creek	3.5 miles	23
Elkins Fork (historical)	3.8 miles	20
Upper Turkey (historical)	4.3 miles	20
South Williamson	4.5 miles	23
New Camp	4.9 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508987. 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.