Upper Middle Creek, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Bedford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40006. It lies near Morton Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Bedford quadrangle.

Upper Middle Creek within Trimble County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Upper Middle Creek between 2001 and 2010, burning about 374 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
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 April 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2001	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 October 2004	Arson/incendiarism	354 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	TARGET
21 October 2010	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HOMETOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trimble 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 Upper Middle Creek: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Lucas & Crumbo Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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
Hickory Grove (historical)	1.2 miles	8
Burroughs (historical)	1.4 miles	8
Gill Ridge	1.4 miles	8
Barebone (historical)	2.6 miles	8
Bedford	3.2 miles	8
Carmon	4.3 miles	8
Wises Landing	4.5 miles	15
Poplar Ridge (historical)	4.7 miles	8

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 Q122560508

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 2742534. 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.