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Upton, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 42784. It lies near Jim Moore Hill. The Survey maps it on the Upton quadrangle. 704 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Upton within Hardin County

On record in Upton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Upton grew from 654 to 704 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000654
2010683+29 (+4%)
2020704+21 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

24 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Upton between 1997 and 2019, burning about 419 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2

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
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWONDERLAND RD.
26 September 1999Smoking6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2000Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 April 2018Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUPTON
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin 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 Upton: 1 producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Upton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Hardin 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
Sonora4.1 miles14
Seven Corners5.4 miles12
Melrose5.5 miles12
Flint Hill5.6 miles12
Nolin6.7 miles14
Spurrier8.5 miles14
Glendale Junction8.9 miles15
Harcourt8.9 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 UptonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2641132The 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 505924. 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.