BlockSol Bloom, Kentucky
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bloomfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40008. The Survey maps it on the Maud quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Maud quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Maud quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sol Bloom (historical) between 2004 and 2005, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beech Fork (historical) | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Bloomfield | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Humphrey (historical) | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Hahntown (historical) | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Plum Run (historical) | 4.0 miles | 7 | |
| Woodlawn | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| East Bardstown | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Fairfield | 5.5 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742411. 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.