Stringtown, Kentucky

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the South Williamson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41514. It stands on Lower Stringtown Branch. The Survey maps it on the Delbarton quadrangle.

Stringtown within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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.

1887 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1909 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:48000
1917 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1928 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Delbarton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

212 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Stringtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23,799 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 69 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
Arson/incendiarism	69
Debris and open burning	61
Fireworks	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
7 September 2007	Other causes	4.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PETERS FORK RD 2
25 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GOODY
19 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	81 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	TAYLORVILLE #2
13 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOFTIS MANSION
13 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	TAYLORVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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
Burnwell	0.3 miles	22
Hardy	1.5 miles	24
Toler	1.7 miles	23
Narrows Branch (historical)	2.2 miles	24
Aflex	2.2 miles	22
Meathouse (historical)	2.6 miles	24
Belfry	2.7 miles	19
Buskirk	2.9 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 504586. 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.