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South Campbellsville, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Campbellsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42718. It lies near Smith Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Campbellsville quadrangle.

South Campbellsville within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

22 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of South Campbellsville between 2000 and 2019, burning about 42 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 June 2002Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 May 2001Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryM&R LANE FIRE
27 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Campbellsville1.1 miles11
Atchison2.2 miles11
Elk Horn2.4 miles11
Arista2.7 miles11
Hatcher3.4 miles11
Sweeneyville4.1 miles9
Wrights4.2 miles9
Acton4.2 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122566821The 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 503896. 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.