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Woodrow, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the McDaniels-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40140. It lies near Marks Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Custer quadrangle.

Woodrow within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Woodrow between 1998 and 2019, burning about 303 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning5
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Smoking13 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTERRETT RD. FIRE
9 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBLUE FORK ROAD
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremony13 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 60 FIRE

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Locust Hill2.2 miles11
Graysville2.4 miles16
Buras2.7 miles11
Stinnettsville2.8 miles16
Custer3.5 miles11
Garfield3.5 miles16
Hensley3.6 miles16
Rosetta4.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509402. 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.