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Crummies, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Cawood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40815. It lies near Slack Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Evarts quadrangle.

Crummies within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

102 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Crummies between 1995 and 2020, burning about 5,471 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 27 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 burning42
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 September 2007Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 June 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreVirginia Department of Forestrynot named
26 May 2007Recreation and ceremony120 acresVirginia Department of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Crummies: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Noes Siding MineIronPast ProducerHematite
Truro MineIronPast ProducerHematite

Every working recorded in Harlan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crummies in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCrummies$2,000Two trees were blocking KY 3001.

Every storm recorded in Harlan 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
Cawood1.5 miles24
Cranks1.8 miles24
Bobs Creek2.6 miles24
Three Point3.1 miles25
Mary Helen3.8 miles25
Smith4.0 miles26
Lenarue4.0 miles25
Chevrolet4.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122563928The 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 490425. 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.