Salem, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Cannel City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41352. It stands on Phipps Fork. The Survey maps it on the Cannel City quadrangle.

Salem within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1889 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Cannel City quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Cannel City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

156 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Salem between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,798 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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	66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Arson/incendiarism	33
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CAMP BRANCH
14 September 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 August 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 May 2001	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 May 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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
Right Fork (historical)	1.4 miles	14
Sellars	1.4 miles	14
Nickell	1.5 miles	14
Head of Stacy Fork (historical)	1.9 miles	14
Payton	1.9 miles	14
Rexville	2.1 miles	14
Caskey Fork (historical)	2.6 miles	14
Panama	3.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509002. 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.