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Ellmitch, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Fordsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42343. It stands on East Fork Adams Fork. The Survey maps it on the Fordsville quadrangle.

Ellmitch within Ohio 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

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Ellmitch between 1997 and 2017, burning about 190 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
25 April 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2001Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2007Recreation and ceremony50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio 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 Ellmitch: 2 prospects. 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
Newton Springs Church ClayClayProspect
Trestle ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellmitch in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2016: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindEllmitch-A tree was down and blocking State Highway 54 at mile marker 11 east of Fordsville.
July 2003Flash FloodEllmitch-Highways 54N and 261N were barricaded due to high water.
May 2016Heavy RainEllmitch-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ohio 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
Fordsville1.0 miles11
Askin3.2 miles11
Narrows4.6 miles12
Haynesville4.9 miles12
Shreve5.1 miles12
Magan5.7 miles13
Aetnaville5.7 miles12
Deanefield6.0 miles12

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 Q122539697The 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 507931. 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.