Snyders, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Crab Orchard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40419. It lies near Muncie Knob. The Survey maps it on the Woodstock quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Snyders within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1952 USGS Woodstock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Snyders (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 278 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	9
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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
30 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 May 1998	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	OLD CHAPEL GAP SCHOOL
16 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COMPUTER
11 April 2010	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2001	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
Sopers (historical)	0.9 miles	7
Broughtentown	1.9 miles	7
Chestnut Ridge (historical)	2.5 miles	7
White Oak (historical)	2.6 miles	7
Dog Walk	3.1 miles	7
Ephesus (historical)	3.5 miles	7
Thompson Store (historical)	3.8 miles	12
Peoples Corner (historical)	3.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742225. 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.