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Stanley, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Nortonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42464. It stands on Grays Branch. The Survey maps it on the Nortonville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Stanley within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

31 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Stanley (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,449 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAN FIRE
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined53 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOIL
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRED HILL
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryROADSIDE F
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTRESSLE
2 April 2016Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOPKINSVILLE ROAD

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pleasant Hill (historical)2.3 miles12
Mount Carmel2.7 miles13
Dillingham (historical)2.7 miles12
McIntosh (historical)3.2 miles12
White Plains3.3 miles12
Romney (historical)3.6 miles12
Nortonville4.6 miles12
Concord (historical)5.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743546. 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.