Cimota City, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Grahamville-Heath census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42053. The Survey maps it on the Heath quadrangle.

Cimota City within McCracken County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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.

1928 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
1932 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Heath quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Heath quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Cimota City between 1999 and 2016, burning about 317 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/undetermined	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
20 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 March 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 December 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 November 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 November 2008	Smoking	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	95 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	OGDEN LANDING ROAD
5 October 2011	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIG BLUESTEM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCracken 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Woodville	1.0 miles	16
Bayou Church (historical)	1.4 miles	16
West Future City	3.2 miles	16
Heath	3.5 miles	16
Future City	3.5 miles	16
Lamont	3.7 miles	16
Rossington	3.9 miles	19
Ceredo	4.0 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122555690

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 507702. 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.