Saint Charles, Kentucky

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the St. Mary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40033. It stands on Cissels Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lebanon West quadrangle.

Saint Charles within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Lebanon West quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Saint Charles between 2001 and 2019, burning about 54 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
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
27 March 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SPENCER HAMILTON
11 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 February 2016	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HAZY DOWNS RD. FIRE
25 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 November 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROSE WOOD
3 October 2001	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 October 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TURKEY
2 October 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JE BICKETT ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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
Saint Mary	0.8 miles	6
Cissels Creek (historical)	1.0 miles	6
Frogtown	1.5 miles	6
Miller Pike (historical)	2.4 miles	6
Stewarts Creek (historical)	2.5 miles	6
Downs (historical)	2.6 miles	8
Cherry Run (historical)	2.8 miles	8
Beantown (historical)	3.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742300. 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.