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Sharon, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cunningham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42039. The Survey maps it on the Fancy Farm quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sharon within Carlisle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Sharon (historical) between 1998 and 2018, burning about 70 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
31 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 May 1998Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Recreation and ceremony16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 March 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySTATE ROUTE 80

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlisle 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 Sharon (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Mcgary MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Carlisle 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
Kirbyton1.8 miles9
Emmaus (historical)1.9 miles9
Zoar (historical)3.1 miles7
Milburn4.7 miles9
Cunningham5.6 miles10
Old Mayfield (historical)5.7 miles10
Wilson6.0 miles7
Saint Dennis (historical)6.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743919. 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.