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Gimlet, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Sandy Hook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41164. It stands on Arabs Fork. The Survey maps it on the Ault quadrangle. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.

Gimlet within Elliott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

116 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Gimlet between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,189 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism20
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 May 2014Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 3298
5 May 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEHART ROAD
11 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMUSHROOM FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elliott County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gimlet: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica. 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
Railroad Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer
Durham Fork ShaleClayProspect
Porter School ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Elliott County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gimlet in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 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
June 2017Flash FloodGimlet$10,000Emergency management reported flood waters covering the road at the intersection of Kentucky Highways 1620 and 504 west of Gimlet. A couple of homes were surrounded by flood waters, prompting the rescue of citizens in two residences as 2 to 3 inches of rain fell.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGimlet-Elliott County dispatch reported that trees had been blown down along KY-504.

Every storm recorded in Elliott 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
Clay Fork (historical)2.6 miles8
Shady Grove (historical)2.8 miles8
Stark3.1 miles8
Beartown3.5 miles8
Ault4.2 miles8
Ibex4.5 miles9
Dewdrop5.1 miles8
Sideway5.3 miles8

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 GimletAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5562695The 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 508090. 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.