Farmville, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41049. It stands on Stone Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Plummers Landing quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Farmville within Fleming County

On record in Farmville

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.

Ringos Mill Covered Bridgelisted 1976 · 0.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1951 USGS Plummers Landing quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

45 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Farmville (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 409 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
3 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ISHMAEL RD
3 April 2013	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COLFAX RD
24 April 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 April 2019	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MOREHEAD ROAD
13 April 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fleming 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hillsboro	3.1 miles	10
Plummers Mill	3.1 miles	8
Grange City	3.3 miles	10
Stringtown	3.7 miles	10
Colfax	4.1 miles	10
Plummers Landing	4.3 miles	8
Sunset	4.4 miles	10
Goddard	6.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2355209. 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.