Saint Paul, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Garrison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41166. It lies near Schoolhouse Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Friendship quadrangle. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Saint Paul within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1915 USGS Garrison quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Garrison quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Friendship quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Friendship quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Friendship quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

86 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Saint Paul between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,294 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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	41
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	6

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
6 September 2007	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	APPLE TREE/ SR 784
22 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	9147
14 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHEEP HOLL
17 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SOCS DR.
7 May 2014	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ERNIES RIDGE
6 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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
Firebrick	2.4 miles	14
Kirkville	3.0 miles	14
Quincy	4.0 miles	14
Garrison	6.4 miles	14
Rexton	7.3 miles	11
Upper Bruce (historical)	8.4 miles	14
Buena Vista	10.2 miles	14
Tannery	11.1 miles	14

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 Paul	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622107	The 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 502713. 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.