Smallhous, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Centertown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42328. The Survey maps it on the Equality quadrangle. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Smallhous within Ohio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Central City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1952 USGS Equality quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

27 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Smallhous between 1998 and 2010, burning about 596 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
13 September 2002	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 August 2010	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MAGAZINE
5 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 April 2002	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 April 2007	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio 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
Equality	1.8 miles	13
Ceralvo	3.5 miles	15
Kirtley	3.9 miles	13
Point Pleasant	4.9 miles	13
Matanzas	5.2 miles	13
Coffman	5.7 miles	13
Centertown	5.8 miles	11
Rockport	6.1 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 Smallhous	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691246	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 509082. 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.