Windyville, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Caneyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42721. It lies near Rowe Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Ready quadrangle.

Windyville within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1922 USGS Leitchfield quadrangle1:48000
1925 USGS Leitchfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Ready quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Windyville between 1997 and 2011, burning about 375 acres in total. None 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	3
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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
2 April 1997	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 March 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LIGHTHOUSE
11 March 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 March 2001	Debris and open burning	182 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Shrewsbury	2.2 miles	12
Ready	2.9 miles	13
Peth	3.4 miles	12
South	3.6 miles	13
Sadler	4.5 miles	13
Caneyville	5.7 miles	12
Millwood	6.4 miles	12
Black Rock	7.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509384. 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.