Westview, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the McDaniels-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40178. It stands on Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kingswood quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Westview within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1953 USGS Kingswood quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Kingswood quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Kingswood quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Westview between 1998 and 2019, burning about 175 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	14
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
26 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 1999	Smoking	13 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FRED PHILLIPS FIRE
18 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge 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
Kingswood	1.3 miles	13
Se Ree	1.9 miles	13
Roff	2.8 miles	13
Locust Hill	3.4 miles	11
Mook	3.5 miles	11
Harned	3.6 miles	17
Cave Spring	3.6 miles	13
Kirk	4.0 miles	13

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 Westview	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7989740	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 506504. 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.