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Saint Charles, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the St. Charles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42453. It stands on Fox Run. The Survey maps it on the Saint Charles quadrangle. 273 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Saint Charles within Hopkins County

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Charles fell from 277 to 273 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010277
2020273-4 (-1%)

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.

Fires near this place

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Saint Charles between 1998 and 2017, burning about 527 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 1999Arson/incendiarism100 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 July 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryROCK SPARK
12 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryAXLE
24 April 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint Charles: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
St. Charles ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Hopkins 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hamby2.3 miles12
Daniel Boone2.6 miles12
Ilsley3.1 miles12
Homestead (historical)3.1 miles12
Southard3.6 miles12
Union Temple (historical)3.7 miles12
Good Hope (historical)4.2 miles12
Little Valley5.4 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on Saint CharlesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2399156The 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 502599. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.