Shrote, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sturgis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42437. The Survey maps it on the Sturgis quadrangle.

Shrote within Union 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.

1907 USGS Morganfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1951 USGS Sturgis quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Sturgis quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Shrote between 2004 and 2017, burning about 110 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	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 March 2011	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MANSION FIRE
13 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 December 2017	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	H AND H
12 November 2011	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CALI FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Hamner	1.7 miles	14
Harding	2.7 miles	14
Arnold	3.3 miles	14
Kern Orchard	3.5 miles	14
Grove Center	3.8 miles	22
Cullen	4.3 miles	14
Morganfield	4.4 miles	14
Pride	5.3 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 Q122547332

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 2743591. 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.