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Saint Paul, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Clarkson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42754. It lies near Portman Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Big Clifty quadrangle. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Saint Paul within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Saint Paul between 2002 and 2014, burning about 53 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/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 April 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryST PAUL FIRE
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryST. PAUL FIRE
18 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySALT RIVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Tar Hill1.7 miles18
Big Clifty2.2 miles18
West Clifty2.6 miles18
Clarkson4.1 miles12
Horntown6.2 miles12
Grayson Springs6.5 miles12
Fragrant6.8 miles12
Hanging Rock6.8 miles10

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 PaulAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622104The 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 502712. 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.