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Samuel Pottinger Settlement, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the New Haven census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40051. It stands on Monks Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Samuel Pottinger Settlement within Nelson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Samuel Pottinger Settlement (historical) between 2001 and 2016, burning about 72 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
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
17 August 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2014Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryNEWTON
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHURST FIRE
8 March 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHALISY FIRE
11 March 2001Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nelson 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 Samuel Pottinger Settlement (historical): 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
Blue Gap RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Nelson 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
Gethsemane1.0 miles9
New Hope1.5 miles9
Clarktown (historical)2.4 miles8
Blue Gap3.4 miles9
New Haven3.6 miles9
Culvertown4.2 miles9
Balltown6.2 miles9
Howardstown6.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742410. 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.