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Cromwell, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Beaver Dam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42333. It lies near Tilford Knob. The Survey maps it on the Cromwell quadrangle. It stands 463 feet above sea level.

Cromwell within Ohio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

28 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Cromwell between 2000 and 2011, burning about 97 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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
22 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBLISTER FIRE
24 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 June 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cromwell in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 3 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
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCromwell-One tree was reported down on Highway 231 just before Cromwell Market.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCromwell-Several trees were downed near the small town of Cromwell, which is 6 miles southeast of Beaver Dam.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindCromwell-Trees and power lines were downed and a metal roof was blown off of a barn.

Every storm recorded in Ohio 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
Oak Grove1.8 miles12
Select2.6 miles12
Prentiss2.8 miles12
Rob Roy3.3 miles11
Highview3.8 miles12
Flint Springs4.0 miles12
Shultztown4.2 miles12
Baizetown4.6 miles12

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 CromwellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28024458The 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 490367. 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.