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Chaumont, Kentucky

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mammoth Cave census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42160. It lies near The Knobs. The Survey maps it on the Mammoth Cave quadrangle. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Chaumont within Edmonson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 22 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

27 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Chaumont between 1995 and 2017, burning about 165 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMammoth Cave National ParkCEDARHILL2
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMammoth Cave National ParkSANDERS
24 July 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMammoth Cave National ParkDOYEL VALLEY
14 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMammoth Cave National ParkHERITAGE TRAIL
3 April 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMammoth Cave National ParkHOGAN
11 April 1995Smoking144 acresMammoth Cave National ParkJIM LEE
29 March 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMammoth Cave National ParkCEDAR HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edmonson 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 Chaumont: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Park City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Edmonson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chaumont in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2022HailChaumont-Quarter-sized hail was observed just west of Park City.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindChaumont-There were reports of two buildings being damaged and cedar trees blocking three lanes of 31 West.

Every storm recorded in Edmonson 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
Union City0.6 miles22
Sloans Crossing2.2 miles22
Elko4.3 miles23
Mammoth Cave4.3 miles22
Cedar Spring4.6 miles24
Pig5.5 miles23
Rocky Hill5.5 miles24
Arthur8.1 miles23

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 ChaumontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21551202The 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 507689. 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.