Claymour, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Elkton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42220. It stands on Steward Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sharon Grove quadrangle.

Claymour within Todd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1952 USGS Sharon Grove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Claymour between 2007 and 2016, burning about 20 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHED FIRE
12 March 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	1 MILE SPOT
9 October 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 October 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claymour in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2010: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2010	Flash Flood	Claymour	-	Up to a foot of water was on a few roadways in the Sharon Grove area. A foot of water covered Kentucky Highway 171 near Allegre, prompting its closure.
April 1998	Hail	Claymour	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Sharon Grove	2.0 miles	7
Wilhelmina	3.9 miles	7
Cedar Grove	4.0 miles	7
Liberty	4.3 miles	7
Elkton	5.8 miles	7
Ashbury (historical)	6.1 miles	7
Daysville	6.3 miles	8
Allegre	6.3 miles	7

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 Claymour	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122563377	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 489594. 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.