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Cressmont, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Southwest Lee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41311. It stands on Upper Sinking Creek. The Survey maps it on the Heidelberg quadrangle. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Cressmont within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

253 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Cressmont between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,737 acres in total. None started naturally. 59 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
Debris and open burning105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Arson/incendiarism59
Recreation and ceremony22
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
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 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITE ASH
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACK GAP
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITE ASH
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUILLEN ROAD
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGHWAY 11 SOUTH
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Cressmont: 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
Yellow Rock Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cressmont in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2026Thunderstorm WindCressmont$2,000Local dispatch reported trees and powerlines blown down onto Crestmont Road between Todds Road and KY-399 resulting is a temporary closure of the road.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCressmont-Trees were blown down on Cressmont Road and Todds Road.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Ida May1.7 miles11
Heidelberg1.9 miles11
Delvinta2.1 miles11
Yellow Rock2.8 miles11
Belle Point3.3 miles13
White Ash3.6 miles13
Willow Shoals4.3 miles11
Congleton4.4 miles13

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 CressmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5184511The 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 511634. 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.