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Stringtown, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 41003. The Survey maps it on the Mason quadrangle.

Stringtown within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Stringtown between 1998 and 2011, burning about 53 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
25 April 2009Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 1998Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 February 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 February 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySLOPPY DRIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant 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
Cordova2.1 miles8
Corinth3.5 miles9
Blanchet3.8 miles8
Mason6.3 miles8
Cherry Grove7.2 miles8
Keefer7.2 miles6
Hilltop7.5 miles8
Heekin8.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509150. 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.