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Canmer, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hardyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42722. It lies near Watkins Island. The Survey maps it on the Canmer quadrangle. It stands 636 feet above sea level.

Canmer within Hart County

On record in Canmer

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Canmer between 2006 and 2011, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3

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
12 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySCOTT FIRE
19 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOWARD FIRE
8 November 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canmer in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1996Thunderstorm WindCanmer2 hurt, $50,000no account filed
May 2025HailCanmer-Ping pong ball sized hail was observed east of Hardyville.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindCanmer-A tree was blown down along Boyds Knob Road.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindCanmer-The Munfordville Mesonet station measured a wind gust of 74 MPH.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindCanmer-A Kentucky Mesonet site measured a 58 mph wind gust.
January 2018HailCanmer-no account filed
June 2007HailCanmer-no account filed
May 2006HailCanmer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Glen Lily1.9 miles12
Rio2.0 miles12
Hardyville2.7 miles12
Old Linwood (historical)2.9 miles12
Linwood3.4 miles12
Hinesdale3.5 miles12
Bunnell Crossing4.5 miles11
Defries4.6 miles8

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 CanmerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690193The 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 488880. 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.