Skilesville, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Drakesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42337. It stands on Mud River. The Survey maps it on the Rochester quadrangle. It stands 400 feet above sea level.

Skilesville within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1911 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:48000
1914 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Skilesville between 1998 and 2017, burning about 350 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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
11 August 2008	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 March 1998	Smoking	120 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 March 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Knightsburg	0.9 miles	11
Davenport Landing	1.8 miles	11
Forest Oak (historical)	3.4 miles	11
Ennis	3.9 miles	11
Riverside (historical)	4.5 miles	11
Forest Grove (historical)	5.0 miles	11
Mud River Union (historical)	5.4 miles	11
Paradise (historical)	5.7 miles	12

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.

Wikipedia article on Skilesville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691237	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 509070. 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.