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Delmer, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Nancy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42544. It stands on Timmy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Delmer quadrangle. It stands 978 feet above sea level.

Delmer within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Delmer between 2000 and 2019, burning about 49 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning7
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
12 April 2014Recreation and ceremony17 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPORTER CREEK
7 March 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2011Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryIMPERIAL
12 March 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 December 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCEDAR BLUFF
23 November 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 November 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski 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 Delmer: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. 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
Fishing Creek ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delmer in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 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
May 2010Flash FloodDelmer-State Highway 235 in Trimble was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Hislope0.5 miles10
Trimble1.2 miles10
Shepola2.0 miles10
Crackers Neck (historical)2.1 miles10
Sardis2.3 miles10
Shafter2.5 miles10
Nancy3.0 miles10
Norfleet3.3 miles8

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 DelmerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690297The 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 507840. 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.