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Fillmore, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the St. Helens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41311. It lies near Anvil Knob. The Survey maps it on the Tallega quadrangle. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Fillmore within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

159 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Fillmore between 1995 and 2019, burning about 1,839 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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 burning74
Arson/incendiarism32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony19
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRUSH CREEK ROAD
18 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAVE BRANCH ROAD
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryGRAY HAWK
27 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2012Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAVE BRANC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Fillmore: 1 prospect. 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
Mud Tunnel ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fillmore in 1 storm report in 2020: 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindFillmore-Dispatch reported a tree blown down along Brush Creek Road in Fillmore.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Williba1.6 miles12
Canyon Falls2.4 miles12
Vada2.5 miles12
Monica3.1 miles12
Primrose3.1 miles12
Athol3.7 miles12
Tallega3.7 miles12
Airedale4.8 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on FillmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5448842The 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 507998. 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.