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Elamton, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Elkfork-Ophir census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Ferguson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lenox quadrangle. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

Elamton within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

114 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Elamton between 1997 and 2019, burning about 2,560 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 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 burning61
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2014Debris and open burning85 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEAR BRANCH HWY 437
2 May 2001Arson/incendiarism12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROCKHOUSE CREEK RD
9 April 2017Debris and open burning174 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRT 437

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elamton in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 1 hail, 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindElamton-The Morgan County dispatch reported that trees had been knocked down by a strong thunderstorm gust front at the intersection of KY-437 and KY-172.
July 2007HailElamton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Middle Fork (historical)2.5 miles16
Elkfork2.7 miles14
Jeptha2.7 miles16
Dingus2.7 miles16
Florress3.3 miles14
Lenox3.5 miles14
Caskey Settement (historical)3.8 miles14
Cottle4.0 miles14

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 ElamtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5353377The 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 507915. 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.