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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.

Fairmount within Jefferson County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

5 since 2001

Regional 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
23 September 2010Debris and open burning13 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMARKWELL RD. FIRE
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBROAD RUN
8 November 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCEDAR CREEK FIRE
3 October 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFairmount-A large tree was blocking Seatonville Road.
April 1998HailFairmount-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Glenmary0.9 miles17
Thixton1.1 miles15
Brentlinger1.3 miles17
Ashville1.4 miles17
Lovvorn (historical)2.4 miles15
Seatonville3.0 miles17
Fern Creek3.1 miles17
Highview3.4 miles17

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.