Dunmor, Kentucky
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Penrod census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42339. It lies near Welburn Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Dunmor quadrangle. 322 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 591 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:48000
- 1914 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
27 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Dunmor between 1997 and 2016, burning about 146 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 April 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JESS WINN ROAD |
| 8 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 March 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunmor in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2002 | Flash Flood | Dunmor | $5,000 | Very heavy thunderstorm rains washed out a road in the Lake Malone area and eroded the soil around a camper. Debris from floodwater was still evident, and water was standing on roads. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunmor | $3,000 | Two trees were blown down on Route 973 on the northwest side of Dunmor. |
| January 2012 | Heavy Rain | Dunmor | - | Standing water was observed in yards and farmland. Around Dunmor and Penrod, water covered parts of U.S. Highway 431 and Kentucky 949. No road closures were reported. Rainfall rates were around one-quarter inch per hour on saturated ground. |
| December 2007 | Flood | Dunmor | - | Rocky Creek was out of its banks and over part of Highway 973. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunmor | - | A park ranger reported large trees were uprooted around Lake Malone State Park. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Dunmor | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Dunmor | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrod | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Myers Chapel (historical) | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Union Ridge | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Rosewood | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Gus | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Little Mountain (historical) | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Mud River Union (historical) | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Belton | 6.2 miles | 15 |
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 Dunmor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5315496 | The 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 491320. 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.






