Southard, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Madisonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42431. The Survey maps it on the Saint Charles quadrangle.

Southard within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1909 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:48000
1911 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Saint Charles quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Saint Charles quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Southard between 1998 and 2017, burning about 607 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LABOR
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 August 2007	Debris and open burning	74 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	114 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIRDS NEST
1 July 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROCK SPARK
24 May 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	EARLINGTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins 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
West Side Heights	3.2 miles	14
Earlington	3.4 miles	14
Richland	3.4 miles	14
Hecla	3.5 miles	14
Saint Charles	3.6 miles	12
Barnsley	3.7 miles	12
Oriole	4.2 miles	14
Ilsley	4.2 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743545. 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.