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South Marshall, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Benton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42025. The Survey maps it on the Hardin quadrangle.

South Marshall within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of South Marshall between 1998 and 2014, burning about 308 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
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning2

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
28 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRUSHY CR
3 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2014Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry305 NANNIE NEAL RD.
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLIVE HAMLETT RD.
8 March 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2009Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall 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
Liberty (historical)0.8 miles13
Yancy Darnell (historical)0.9 miles13
Monkey Den (historical)1.0 miles13
Glade1.7 miles13
Union Hill (historical)1.9 miles13
Walnut Grove2.2 miles13
Dogtown2.8 miles13
Hardin2.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509097. 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.