Williams Creek, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cumberland City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42602. It stands on Hayes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cumberland City quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Williams Creek within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Cumberland City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Cumberland City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

54 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Williams Creek (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,054 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	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
9 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	11 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	98 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	150 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WHIPPOORWILL FIRE
2 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton 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
Marlow	1.0 miles	10
Upchurch	1.7 miles	11
Snow	2.1 miles	11
Seventy Six	2.1 miles	11
Cartwright	2.2 miles	10
Ida	3.1 miles	11
Cumberland City	3.2 miles	10
Narvel	3.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742108. 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.