BlockBeaumont, Kentucky
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Summer Shade census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42129. It lies near Graven Hill. The Survey maps it on the Summer Shade quadrangle. It stands 1,073 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Summer Shade quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Summer Shade quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Beaumont between 1998 and 2019, burning about 698 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LONESTAR RIDGE |
| 10 September 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 April 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GLEN SHAW RD |
| 7 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SLATE CREEK FIRE |
| 6 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 45 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaumont in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summer Shade | 2.7 miles | 8 | |
| Willow Shade | 3.0 miles | 8 | |
| Goodluck | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Cedar Flats | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Curtis | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Randolph | 7.3 miles | 8 | |
| Edmonton | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| New Liberty | 9.4 miles | 10 |
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 Beaumont | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14690074 | The 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 486599. 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.