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Tuggleville, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Tejay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40845. It stands on Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Balkan quadrangle. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Tuggleville within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

134 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Tuggleville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,262 acres in total. None started naturally. 40 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
Debris and open burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Arson/incendiarism40
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTANYARD HILL
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRIGHT FORK
22 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 July 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOLD IRON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Black Snake0.3 miles18
Blackmont1.7 miles18
Cardinal2.1 miles18
Balkan2.3 miles18
Tejay3.1 miles18
Callaway3.2 miles18
Laurel Ford3.7 miles18
Miracle4.3 miles18

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 TugglevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7851648The 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 509242. 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.