Tousey, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Short Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40119. It stands on Dry Fork. The Survey maps it on the Falls of Rough quadrangle.

Tousey within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1932 USGS Fordsville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Falls Of Rough quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Falls of Rough quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Tousey between 1998 and 2019, burning about 101 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
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
30 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BLAINE HILL
25 September 1999	Smoking	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RIDGE ROAD
26 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	OLATION FI
2 May 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PINE KNOB
10 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 March 1998	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Yeaman	1.6 miles	11
Pine Knob	2.9 miles	11
Hites Falls	3.2 miles	11
Short Creek	4.0 miles	12
Jugville	4.5 miles	11
Post	4.8 miles	12
Spring Lick	4.8 miles	11
Hickory Corner	5.1 miles	11

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 Q122559655

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 509225. 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.