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Artemus, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Barbourville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40903. It stands on Ramsey Branch. The Survey maps it on the Artemus quadrangle. 453 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.

Artemus within Knox County

Population over time

2 figures

Artemus fell from 590 to 453 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010590
2020453-137 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

303 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 303 fires within 5 miles of Artemus between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,598 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 59 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 burning149
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Arson/incendiarism59
Recreation and ceremony22
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
9 September 2002Recreation and ceremony18 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOAL PORT #1
30 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Artemus: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barbourville ShaleClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Artemus in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 flash flood. 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
November 1996Flash FloodArtemus$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Brush Creek (historical)0.9 miles17
Davis Bend (historical)1.2 miles17
Avis (historical)1.5 miles17
East Jellico (historical)2.0 miles17
Boone Heights2.0 miles17
Himyar2.2 miles17
Bimble2.9 miles16
Baughman3.1 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on ArtemusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4797518The 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 517317. 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.

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.