Suddith, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Salt Lick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40371. It stands on Clark Fork. The Survey maps it on the Olympia quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Suddith within Bath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1929 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Olympia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Olympia quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Suddith (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,433 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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
Arson/incendiarism	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2

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
28 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	PICNIC
23 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HWY 36
7 April 2017	Arson/incendiarism	35 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	HURRICANE
7 April 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	REBEL TRACE
6 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JOHNSON BRANCH
3 April 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bath County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Suddith (historical): 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	J.W.Ingram Deposit	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Bath 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
Upper Salt Lick (historical)	0.8 miles	10
Pine Grove (historical)	1.9 miles	10
Clear Creek Furnace	2.6 miles	10
Black Sulpher Spring (historical)	3.0 miles	10
White Sulpher (historical)	3.2 miles	10
Olympia Springs	3.2 miles	10
Lower Salt Lick (historical)	4.8 miles	10
Mill Creek (historical)	5.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2416511. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.