Woodrum Ridge, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42539. It stands on Woodrum Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Clementsville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Woodrum Ridge within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1952 USGS Clementsville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

39 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Woodrum Ridge (historical) between 1998 and 2017, burning about 516 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
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
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CHRISTIAN
7 April 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 April 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey 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 Oak Ridge (historical)	1.2 miles	10
Caney Fork (historical)	2.1 miles	7
Scotts Chapel (historical)	2.8 miles	10
Foster (historical)	3.1 miles	10
Liberty	3.7 miles	7
Atterson	3.8 miles	10
Pricetown	4.2 miles	7
Beech Bottom	4.7 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2568507. 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.