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Beechmont, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Drakesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42323. The Survey maps it on the Drakesboro quadrangle. 776 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 463 feet above sea level.

Beechmont within Muhlenberg County

Population over time

2 figures

Beechmont grew from 689 to 776 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
2010689
2020776+87 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

55 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Beechmont between 1998 and 2018, burning about 957 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism300 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2010Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDOG LADY
31 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEECH CREEK
30 August 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 2008Debris and open burning21 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 July 2012Debris and open burning145 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOOSE LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beechmont in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024HailBeechmont$10,000A thunderstorm core moving east-northeastward across Muhlenberg County produced hail measured to quarter size in Beechmont and golf ball size hail in Browder, submitted via mPING. Emergency management reported hail damage to vehicles occurred in Beechmont.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindBeechmont-A couple of trees were down, including one that fell across power lines.
June 1998HailBeechmont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Belton1.0 miles15
Browder1.6 miles15
Beech Creek1.6 miles15
Forest Grove (historical)2.5 miles11
Mud River Union (historical)2.9 miles11
Leighs (historical)2.9 miles15
Union Ridge3.1 miles15
Drakesboro3.1 miles15

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 BeechmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5724492The 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 486750. 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.