Townsville, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sugar Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42256. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Quality quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Townsville within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1911 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:48000
1914 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Quality quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Townsville (historical) between 1997 and 2016, burning about 141 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2012	Recreation and ceremony	3.2 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DUNMORE CR
27 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 March 2001	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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 Townsville (historical): 1 plant. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Park City Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant

Every working recorded in Butler 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
McCoytown (historical)	2.0 miles	11
Boston	2.1 miles	11
Silver City	2.3 miles	11
Stringtown (historical)	2.7 miles	11
Leetown	3.3 miles	14
Hickory Stand (historical)	3.5 miles	11
Toy Spring (historical)	3.7 miles	11
Mount Zion (historical)	3.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742354. 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.