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Scottsburg, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42445. It sits by Ceda Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Princeton East quadrangle.

Scottsburg within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Scottsburg between 1997 and 2015, burning about 67 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 ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
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
6 September 1999Smoking40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAVES FIRE
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDAWSON ROAD
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Scottsburg: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Phelps Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer
Princeton MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Princeton No. 2 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Princeton Sandstone PitSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Caldwell 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
Lebanon (historical)1.3 miles16
Cedar Bluff1.4 miles16
Walche Cut1.8 miles16
McGowan1.9 miles16
Friendship3.3 miles16
Rock Spring (historical)3.4 miles15
Claxton3.4 miles16
Pumpkin Center3.4 miles16

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 ScottsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65057293The 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 509022. 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.