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Carmack, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Land Between the Lakes census division. It stands on Little Carmack Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eddyville quadrangle. It stands 443 feet above sea level.

Carmack within Lyon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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

25 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Carmack between 1999 and 2020, burning about 357 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural1
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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaWILCOX CEMETERY
7 August 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLAM HEAT
14 August 2010Natural1.0 acresLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaMAMMOTH
22 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 May 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaGRAFFITI
1 April 2015Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOPLAR CR. RD FIRE
1 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2010Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carmack in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 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 2011FloodCarmack$30,000no account filed
April 2016Thunderstorm WindCarmack$2,000A tree was blown down, blocking Highway 453 in the Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area.
April 2011Flash FloodCarmack-Portions of Kentucky Highways 818 and 1943 were closed due to high water.
December 2011FloodCarmack-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyon 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
Cross Road1.3 miles19
Kuttawa3.0 miles20
Indian Hills3.3 miles19
Suwanee3.4 miles20
Buena Vista Estates3.6 miles19
Wildwood Hills4.1 miles19
Eden Bay4.1 miles19
Paradise Hills4.3 miles19

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 CarmackAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690199The 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 507655. 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.