Select, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Beaver Dam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42333. The Survey maps it on the Flener quadrangle.

Select within Ohio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1925 USGS Spring Lick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Flener quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Flener quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Select between 2000 and 2010, burning about 214 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	13
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
23 June 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 April 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	160 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 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
Oak Grove	1.2 miles	12
Baizetown	2.0 miles	12
Flint Springs	2.0 miles	12
Cromwell	2.6 miles	12
Rob Roy	3.4 miles	11
Mount Pleasant	3.6 miles	11
Windy Hill	4.6 miles	11
Renfrow	4.8 miles	11

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 Q122596922

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 509029. 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.