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Colmar, Kentucky

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Middlesborough census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40965. It stands on Cranes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Middlesboro North quadrangle. It stands 1,066 feet above sea level.

Colmar within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 25 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

125 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Colmar between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,826 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning39
Arson/incendiarism24
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1995Natural1.0 acresCumberland Gap National Historic ParkSTEEL TANK
6 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOWASH
21 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCumberland Gap National Historic ParkROUTE58#2
17 August 1999Natural242 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCumberland Gap National Historic ParkLEWIS HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell 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 Colmar: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Mayfield MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Bell 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
Hutch1.9 miles27
Meldrum2.2 miles25
Ferndale2.7 miles25
Ponza3.8 miles25
Calvin4.2 miles27
Binghamtown4.4 miles25
Davis Station (historical)4.6 miles28
Harbell4.7 miles25

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 ColmarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5147739The 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 507733. 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.