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Elmburg, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Christianburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40057. The Survey maps it on the North Pleasureville quadrangle.

Elmburg within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Elmburg between 1999 and 2011, burning about 54 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2

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
15 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmburg in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
February 2021FloodElmburg-Jacksonville Road was under water.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindElmburg-A tree was reported down due to high winds in the area.
May 2003HailElmburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Defoe1.6 miles10
Cropper2.3 miles10
Old Christianburg2.8 miles10
Pleasureville2.9 miles10
Christianburg3.3 miles10
Bagdad4.1 miles10
Jacksonville4.5 miles10
Consolation4.7 miles10

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 Q122564358The 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 491735. 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.