Smith, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the McKee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40447. It stands on Rocky Branch. The Survey maps it on the McKee quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Smith within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1891 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Mc Kee quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

190 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Smith (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,859 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 78 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
Arson/incendiarism	78
Debris and open burning	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Recreation and ceremony	22
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	GRENADE
21 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	448
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	290
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	CARLTON ROAD #2
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Bradshaw	1.2 miles	13
Huff (historical)	1.4 miles	13
Gray Hawk	2.0 miles	13
Sparks (historical)	2.5 miles	13
Privett	2.6 miles	13
Macedonia	2.8 miles	13
Atkinstown	3.0 miles	13
McKee	3.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2504964. 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.