Ware, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Middleburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42516. It stands on Pawpaw Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mintonville quadrangle. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Ware within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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 Mintonville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Ware between 1998 and 2015, burning about 480 acres in total. 1 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 burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
12 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PALLET FIRE
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MASSENGALE
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ELLIOT
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FIRE TOWER
11 April 1999	Natural	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2000	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 March 2000	Smoking	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 March 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ware: 2 producers. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	American Concrete Stone Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Bethelridge Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Casey 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
Ferndale (historical)	1.5 miles	8
Bethelridge	1.8 miles	8
Argyle	2.4 miles	8
Mintonville	3.1 miles	8
Mount Olive	4.9 miles	8
Calvary (historical)	6.5 miles	8
Gilpin	6.8 miles	7
Athens	7.0 miles	7

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 Ware	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7969236	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 509318. 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.