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Walnut Grove, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Waynesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40489. The Survey maps it on the Eubank quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Walnut Grove within Lincoln 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.

Fires near this place

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Grove (historical) between 1998 and 2016, burning about 315 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
2 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 April 2010Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2010Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryTROY ADAMS
12 April 1998Arson/incendiarism11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2010Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
Greenbriar (historical)1.6 miles8
Waynesburg2.3 miles8
Chestnut Ridge (historical)2.5 miles7
White Oak (historical)2.5 miles7
Pleasant Point (historical)3.0 miles8
Kings Mountain3.1 miles8
Diamond (historical)3.2 miles8
Pond (historical)3.8 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742228. 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.