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Garmeada, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Middlesborough census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40965. It lies near Maiden Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Kayjay quadrangle.

Garmeada within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

147 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Garmeada between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9,231 acres in total. None started naturally. 44 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 burning64
Arson/incendiarism44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMONARCH CHURCH #2
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMONARCH CHURCH #1
10 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresTennessee Division of ForestryCOAL
30 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEANS FORK
3 June 2019Arson/incendiarism17 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLD MILL ROAD FIRE
23 June 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garmeada in 1 storm report in 1998: 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGarmeada$5,000Trees were downed and a church was damaged.

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Capito1.0 miles18
Hamblim2.8 miles16
Fonde2.8 miles17
Chenoa3.2 miles18
Edgewood3.3 miles18
Pruden3.5 miles17
Henderson Grove3.5 miles16
Davisburg3.9 miles18

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 Q122566092The 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 508067. 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.