Sugar Grove, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Burkesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. It stands on Shaddoan Branch. The Survey maps it on the Waterview quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sugar Grove within Cumberland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Waterview quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Grove (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 608 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2001	Smoking	3.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 March 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 March 2009	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 1998	Arson/incendiarism	205 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 March 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SPOON BRANCH ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland 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
Little Renox (historical)	1.5 miles	8
Big Renox	1.6 miles	8
Waterview	3.7 miles	8
Grider	3.9 miles	8
Lewis Creek (historical)	4.3 miles	10
Casey Fork	4.4 miles	8
Bakerton	4.5 miles	10
Dougan Town	5.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742626. 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.