Sixseam, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dawson Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42408. It lies near Section House Hill. The Survey maps it on the Dawson Springs quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sixseam within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1909 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:48000
1911 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

47 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Sixseam (historical) between 1998 and 2017, burning about 704 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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	17
Recreation and ceremony	13
Arson/incendiarism	8
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	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
24 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	100 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins 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
Murphy Ford	1.6 miles	13
Dawson Springs	1.7 miles	13
Walnut Grove (historical)	2.6 miles	13
Union Temple (historical)	3.0 miles	12
Ilsley	3.2 miles	12
Hamby	3.4 miles	12
Charleston	3.9 miles	13
Saint Charles	5.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743544. 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.