Walnut Grove, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Adolphus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42120. It lies near Wagoner Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Petroleum quadrangle.

Walnut Grove within Allen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1931 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Petroleum quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Grove between 1999 and 2005, burning about 16 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
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
21 March 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
15 March 2000	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
20 December 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
30 October 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
28 October 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
27 October 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allen 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 Walnut Grove: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Lead. 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
	Central Tennessee Zinc District	Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Lead	Producer	1969, 1975

Every working recorded in Allen 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
Adolphus	2.1 miles	12
Petroleum	2.9 miles	12
Forest Springs	3.3 miles	12
Fleet	3.7 miles	12
Mount Union (historical)	4.2 miles	12
Rodemer	4.2 miles	12
White Plains (historical)	5.6 miles	12
Chapel Hill	5.6 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742852. 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.