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Frymire, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Irvington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40171. It lies near Bruner Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Lodiburg quadrangle.

Frymire within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Frymire between 1999 and 2019, burning about 186 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRUNER VALLEY ROAD
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEAD HORSE HOLLOW FIRE
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Debris and open burning16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2000Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frymire in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2008: 2 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
February 2008Thunderstorm WindFrymire$100,000Thunderstorm winds did severe damage to a home and rendered it uninhabitable.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindFrymire-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Raymond2.2 miles15
Union Star3.3 miles17
Lodiburg3.9 miles17
Mystic5.0 miles17
Manning Crossing5.1 miles17
Ammons5.2 miles17
Mooleyville5.5 miles16
Webster5.8 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122545470The 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 508050. 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.