Sellars, 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 lies near Pilot Knob. The Survey maps it on the Cannel City quadrangle.

Sellars 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

169 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Sellars between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,707 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 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	79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Arson/incendiarism	31
Recreation and ceremony	12
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
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
6 May 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 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
21 May 2008	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 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
Salem	1.4 miles	14
Payton	2.2 miles	14
Right Fork (historical)	2.8 miles	14
Head of Stacy Fork (historical)	2.8 miles	14
Rexville	2.8 miles	14
Nickell	3.0 miles	14
Adele	3.1 miles	14
Caskey Fork (historical)	3.2 miles	14

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 Q122547275

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 509030. 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.