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Glenmore, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sand Hill-Girkin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42101. It stands on Clay Lick. The Survey maps it on the Reedyville quadrangle.

Glenmore within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

30 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Glenmore between 2000 and 2018, burning about 487 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySPINKS CEMETERY FIRE
8 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2001Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySLEEPY HOLLOW
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTHE BRIDGE
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresKentucky Division of ForestryREGION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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 Glenmore: 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
Gully ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenmore in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2023: 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
January 2023Thunderstorm WindGlenmore-Trees were blown down on Reedyville road near the Warren/Butler County line.
July 2020Flash FloodGlenmore-Water washed out a culvert under Tug Howard Road near Highway 401. Replacement costs are unknown.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Anna3.8 miles15
Sand Hill4.4 miles15
Penns Chapel (historical)5.1 miles15
Richardsville5.8 miles15
Girkin7.3 miles15
Greencastle7.4 miles15
Riverside7.7 miles14
Rays Branch (historical)7.8 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.

Wikipedia article on GlenmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85763675The 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 508099. 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.