Twin Lakes, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Land Between the Lakes census division. It lies near Nickell Cove. The Survey maps it on the Birmingham Point quadrangle. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Twin Lakes within Lyon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1936 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS Golden Pond quadrangle1:48000
1938 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Birmingham Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Golden Pond quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1967 USGS Birmingham Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Twin Lakes between 1997 and 2020, burning about 766 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
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2

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
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	WILCOX CEMETERY
5 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	HILLMAN
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	CANAL LOOP
16 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	NICKELL
26 August 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GARBAGE FIRE
11 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	221 acres	Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area	NICKELL BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon 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
Carmack	5.4 miles	19
Suwanee	6.1 miles	20
Cross Road	6.2 miles	19
Kuttawa	7.2 miles	20
Indian Hills	8.5 miles	19
Wildwood Hills	8.5 miles	19
Commerce Landing	8.6 miles	13
Buena Vista Estates	8.6 miles	19

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 Twin Lakes	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691392	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 509253. 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.