Tar Heel, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Clinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42031. It stands on Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oakton quadrangle. It stands 335 feet above sea level.

Tar Heel within Hickman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1939 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1951 USGS Oakton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1970 USGS Oakton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Tar Heel between 1997 and 2018, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	6
Debris and open burning	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
4 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	POWERLINE
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DAVIS ROAD
20 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GRUBBS ROA
16 June 2015	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COMBINE
3 April 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 February 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 February 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HARPER HAMS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hickman 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
New Chapel (historical)	1.5 miles	18
Midway (historical)	1.5 miles	18
Moss (historical)	1.9 miles	18
Spring Hill	2.6 miles	10
Scott	3.7 miles	18
Zion (historical)	3.8 miles	18
South Columbus	4.3 miles	18
Clinton	4.4 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q14691324

The 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 2743923. 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.