Winford, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bardwell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42023. It stands on Gray Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wickliffe quadrangle.

Winford within Carlisle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1939 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1951 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1970 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Winford between 2002 and 2015, burning about 122 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2015	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HWY 1741
20 August 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CORN SHELL
5 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlisle 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
Beech Grove (historical)	4.3 miles	16
Bardwell	4.7 miles	16
Laketon	4.9 miles	16
Mississippi (historical)	5.5 miles	16
Morris Valley (historical)	5.7 miles	10
Magee Springs	6.5 miles	10
Geveden	7.1 miles	16
Antioch (historical)	7.2 miles	9

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 Q122571553

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 509386. 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.