Stringtown, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sacramento census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42372. It stands on Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sacramento quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Stringtown within McLean County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Madisonville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1952 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Stringtown (historical) between 1999 and 2007, burning about 96 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 October 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean 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
Sacramento	3.7 miles	12
Poplar Grove	3.9 miles	12
Station	5.1 miles	13
Pack (historical)	5.3 miles	12
Worthington Chapel (historical)	6.1 miles	13
Semiway	6.4 miles	13
Shutts (historical)	7.6 miles	13
Rumsey	8.9 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743131. 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.