Trace, Kentucky

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Cannonsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41168. It stands on Right Fork Trace Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boltsfork quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Trace within Boyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1901 USGS Ceredo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
1913 USGS Ceredo quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Boltsfork quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Boltsfork quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

103 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Trace (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,219 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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	27
Debris and open burning	26
Recreation and ceremony	22
Arson/incendiarism	20
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	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
7 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 May 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COLLINS ROAD
9 April 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WHITES CREEK
9 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd 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 Trace (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Princess Mine Big Run	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Boyd 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
Mavity	1.8 miles	21
Garner	2.3 miles	21
Cloverdale (historical)	2.4 miles	21
Rush	3.0 miles	15
Coalton	3.7 miles	15
Big Sandy (historical)	4.2 miles	21
Princess	4.3 miles	22
Cannonsburg	4.4 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2088984. 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.