Sandefur Crossing, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Beaver Dam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42320. It stands on Pigeon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Horton quadrangle.

Sandefur Crossing within Ohio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1909 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Horton quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Horton quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

42 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Sandefur Crossing between 2000 and 2012, burning about 216 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Natural	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
4 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BLISTER FIRE
13 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 July 2012	Natural	14 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BEAGLE CLU
17 July 2001	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio 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
Horton	2.2 miles	11
Beaver Dam	2.5 miles	11
Rob Roy	2.7 miles	11
Mount Pleasant	4.3 miles	11
Hartford	4.7 miles	11
McHenry	5.3 miles	11
Rosine	5.4 miles	11
Prentiss	5.6 miles	12

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.

Wikidata item Q122590010

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 509009. 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.