Woods, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the St. Johns-Freemont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42003. It stands on Bee Branch. The Survey maps it on the Symsonia quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Woods within McCracken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1936 USGS Symsonia quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Hickory quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Symsonia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Symsonia quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Murray quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Woods (historical) between 1997 and 2018, burning about 208 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	16
Recreation and ceremony	6
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
24 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 August 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SOUTH FRIE
16 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JOHNY KING
28 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCracken County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Woods (historical): 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
	Dunning Mine	Clay	Past Producer
	Massac Creek Clay Bed	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Prospect

Every working recorded in McCracken 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
Krebs	0.6 miles	11
Sunny Slope (historical)	0.8 miles	11
Freemont	1.0 miles	11
Garrett (historical)	1.5 miles	11
Sheehan Bridge	2.5 miles	11
Hovekamp	2.6 miles	24
Yopp	2.8 miles	12
Hardmoney	3.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743797. 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.