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Elmwood, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sebree census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42456. It stands on Sugar Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beech Grove quadrangle.

Elmwood within Webster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Elmwood between 1998 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
28 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 July 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestry3 MAN FIRE
20 April 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 March 2019Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLINK ROAD
29 March 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elmwood: 1 past producer. 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
Jewel City Clay MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmwood in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindElmwood$90,000Ten power poles were blown down along U.S. Highway 41 between Sebree and Slaughters. A wooden barn was destroyed just west of Highway 41.
February 2025Flash FloodElmwood-Flash flooding closed a portion of Highway 138 near Slaughters.
February 2025Flash FloodElmwood-A water rescue occurred along Slaughters Elmwood Road north of Slaughters due to flash flooding along the Sugar Camp Creek.
April 2016Tornado (EF0)Elmwood-Numerous eyewitnesses reported a tornado touchdown. There was no damage located in the woods and fields where it was sighted. Photographs showed a rope-like funnel cloud extending down behind a tree line.

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Breton2.3 miles15
Slaughters2.7 miles14
Onton3.5 miles14
Steamport Landing5.3 miles14
Sebree5.9 miles15
Gatesville6.2 miles15
Ortiz6.5 miles15
Pratt7.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507933. 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.