West Hanson, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Hanson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42413. The Survey maps it on the Slaughters quadrangle.

West Hanson within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1907 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:48000
1909 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Slaughters quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Slaughtersville quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

36 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of West Hanson between 1998 and 2020, burning about 245 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	11
Debris and open burning	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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
22 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 2000	Natural	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TREE SWING
7 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins 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 West Hanson: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Jewel City Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hopkins 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
Hanson	1.0 miles	12
Oakliff Store (historical)	2.7 miles	14
Vandetta	4.6 miles	12
Mitchell Hill	4.9 miles	14
Veazey	5.2 miles	14
Manitou	5.3 miles	14
Oakley Home (historical)	5.3 miles	14
Yarbro	6.1 miles	14

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 Q122592336

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 2743549. 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.