Fairmount, Kentucky
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the South Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40291. It stands on Big Run. The Survey maps it on the Mount Washington quadrangle.
On record in Fairmount
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Snapp Houselisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Mount Washington quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Mount Washington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Mount Washington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Fairmount between 2001 and 2014, burning about 31 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MARKWELL RD. FIRE |
| 3 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 14 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BROAD RUN |
| 8 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CEDAR CREEK FIRE |
| 3 October 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairmount in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | - | A large tree was blocking Seatonville Road. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenmary | 0.9 miles | 17 | |
| Thixton | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Brentlinger | 1.3 miles | 17 | |
| Ashville | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Lovvorn (historical) | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Seatonville | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| Fern Creek | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Highview | 3.4 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 491887. 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.







