Sherwood Shores, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fairdealing census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42044. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Birmingham Point quadrangle.

Sherwood Shores within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1936 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS Golden Pond quadrangle1:48000
1938 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Birmingham Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Golden Pond quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1967 USGS Birmingham Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Sherwood Shores between 1997 and 2019, burning about 277 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	HILLMAN
5 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PINE LOGS
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	CANAL LOOP
16 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	NICKELL
27 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 August 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	221 acres	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	NICKELL BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall 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 Sherwood Shores: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	West-Of-Highway Clay	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Marshall 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
The Moors	0.3 miles	15
Buena Vista	0.5 miles	15
Cambridge Shores	0.8 miles	15
Marshall	1.3 miles	15
Birmingham	1.6 miles	15
Brien	1.8 miles	15
Little Bear Creek	2.1 miles	15
Bethel	3.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 503363. 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.