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Utley Ford, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It lies in ZIP code area 42445. It stands on Tyson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dalton quadrangle.

Utley Ford within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Utley Ford between 1997 and 2014, burning about 343 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 August 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFARMERSVILLE ROAD
27 August 2012Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE PI
26 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFARMERSVILLE RD.
6 April 1998Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell 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
Smith Ford1.0 miles13
Shady Grove (historical)1.3 miles13
Baldwin Ford1.4 miles13
Tom Gray Ford1.5 miles13
Quinn2.4 miles13
Harper Ford4.4 miles13
Fryer4.6 miles13
Creswell5.8 miles14

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 Q122572241The 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 509267. 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.