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Gillmore, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hazel Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41301. It stands on Sam Hall Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lee City quadrangle.

Gillmore within Wolfe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

151 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Gillmore between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,502 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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 burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Arson/incendiarism25
Recreation and ceremony21
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2002Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAMP BRANCH
1 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wolfe County

Storms near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gillmore in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2016: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2011Tornado (EF1)Gillmore$75,000An EF-1 tornado was confirmed to have touched down 1 mile north of Gilmore. The tornados track was one quarter of a mile long and 100 yards wide. Numerous trees were snapped and scattered along the tornados path. One mobile home had its roof blow off and was also pushed about 5 feet off of its foundation. One barn was destroyed. Two other mobile homes had roof and siding damage. One outbuilding used as a sawmill was also destroyed.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGillmore$10,000A tree fell onto a truck in the upper Gillmore community.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindGillmore$2,000An overhang porch and pieces of siding were torn off a mobile home in Gilmore.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGillmore-A tree was blown down on Hwy 1419.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindGillmore-A tree was down on Highway 1953.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindGillmore-Several trees down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindGillmore-One tree down.
June 2006HailGillmore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wolfe 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
Upper Gillmore1.0 miles11
Lower Gillmore1.8 miles14
Rose Chapel (historical)1.9 miles13
Lexie1.9 miles13
Lee City1.9 miles11
Helechawa2.5 miles14
Rosefork3.1 miles11
Malaga3.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508087. 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.