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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.

Dunmor within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

27 since 1997

Regional 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 ceremony10
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
4 September 2008Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJESS WINN ROAD
8 March 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2009Equipment and vehicle use20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002Flash FloodDunmor$5,000Very 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 2011Thunderstorm WindDunmor$3,000Two trees were blown down on Route 973 on the northwest side of Dunmor.
January 2012Heavy RainDunmor-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 2007FloodDunmor-Rocky Creek was out of its banks and over part of Highway 973.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindDunmor-A park ranger reported large trees were uprooted around Lake Malone State Park.
May 2019HailDunmor-no account filed
April 2002HailDunmor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Penrod2.8 miles11
Myers Chapel (historical)2.8 miles12
Union Ridge4.4 miles15
Rosewood5.0 miles12
Gus5.5 miles11
Little Mountain (historical)5.8 miles12
Mud River Union (historical)6.1 miles11
Belton6.2 miles15

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 DunmorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5315496The 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.