Willowtown, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Saloma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42718. It stands on McFarland Branch. The Survey maps it on the Saloma quadrangle.

Willowtown within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Saloma quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Saloma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Willowtown between 1998 and 2020, burning about 292 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
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
12 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FINLEY RIDGE
16 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ST. MATTHEWS
5 March 2017	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CLEAR CREEK
5 March 2000	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor 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 Willowtown: 1 producer. 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
	Badger Mine and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Taylor 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
White Rose	3.0 miles	9
Saloma	3.2 miles	9
Hobson	3.4 miles	9
Durhamtown	3.6 miles	9
Maple	4.3 miles	9
Finley	4.4 miles	9
Badger	5.8 miles	9
Mac	5.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509379. 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.