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Suwanee, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Eddyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42055. It lies near Iron Hill. The Survey maps it on the Grand Rivers quadrangle. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Suwanee within Lyon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 20 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

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Suwanee between 1997 and 2020, burning about 371 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/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2002Smoking30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaWILCOX CEMETERY
3 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaNICKELL
11 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use221 acresLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaNICKELL BRANCH
14 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 May 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaGRAFFITI
4 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon 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 Suwanee: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Reed MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Kuttawa1.8 miles20
Carmack3.4 miles19
Cross Road4.6 miles19
Antioch (historical)4.9 miles20
Eddyville5.4 miles19
Indian Hills5.8 miles19
Twin Lakes6.1 miles15
Fairview6.4 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on SuwaneeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691299The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509168. 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.