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Alumbaugh, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wagersville-South Irvine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40336. It stands on Sparks Branch. The Survey maps it on the Leighton quadrangle.

Alumbaugh within Estill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

138 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Alumbaugh between 1993 and 2019, burning about 4,636 acres in total. None started naturally. 54 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
Arson/incendiarism54
Debris and open burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
7 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2008Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestRADER RIDGE
11 July 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestME CRAZY
10 July 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestSMOKING MAPLE
12 June 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 May 2007Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Estill County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alumbaugh in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2008Thunderstorm WindAlumbaugh$7,000Several trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindAlumbaugh$1,000A tree was blown down and across Jakes Heavenly Highway in Alumbaugh.
May 2010FloodAlumbaugh-Kentucky Route 1209 and county road Searcy Branch were under water as of 348 am with a few homes on Rt 1209 surrounded by water in the community of Alumbaugh.
June 2011HailAlumbaugh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Estill 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
Lynch Town (historical)1.4 miles13
Walnut Gap (historical)2.0 miles13
Greenbriar (historical)2.0 miles13
Wagersville2.4 miles12
Leighton2.4 miles13
Barnes Mountain (historical)2.7 miles12
Macedonia (historical)3.8 miles12
Buck Creek (historical)3.8 miles12

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 Q122557456The 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 510255. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.