Snap, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Millerstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42726. It stands on Hunting Fork. The Survey maps it on the Clarkson quadrangle. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

Snap within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1925 USGS Cub Run quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Clarkson quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Clarkson quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

39 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Snap between 1997 and 2019, burning about 626 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Debris and open burning	13
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
22 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LONE OAK ROAD
18 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 May 2018	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	QUAIL HOLLOW
7 April 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WASHBURN FIRE
6 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	NOLIN ESTATES FIRE
4 April 1997	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	INDIAN CLIFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Rock Creek	2.0 miles	12
Higdon	2.1 miles	12
Iberia	2.1 miles	15
Johnson Crossroads	2.4 miles	12
Hilltop	2.7 miles	14
Skaggstown	2.7 miles	12
Nolin Lake Estates	3.1 miles	15
Pearman	3.2 miles	13

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 Snap	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691252	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 509087. 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.