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Clermont, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Shepherdsville Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40110. It stands on Cave Hollow Branch. The Survey maps it on the Shepherdsville quadrangle.

Clermont within Bullitt County

On record in Clermont

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

8 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

53 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Clermont between 1998 and 2020, burning about 161 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony13
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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 2002Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryR J CORMAN FIRE
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 1999Natural9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullitt County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clermont in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2023Flash FloodClermont-Clermont Road (Kentucky Route 245) had to be closed due to flooding.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindClermont-There was a tree on a house.
May 2010Flash FloodClermont-One lane of KY 245 was blocked due to high water near Bernheim Forest.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindClermont-Thunderstorm winds downed twenty trees.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindClermont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bullitt 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
Limestone Springs0.8 miles12
Poplar Level1.0 miles12
Hobbs1.5 miles12
Ridgetop2.3 miles11
Bardstown Junction2.6 miles12
Lotus3.1 miles11
Cedar Grove3.1 miles12
Lick Skillet (historical)3.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 489662. 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.