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Hima, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sibert-Hima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Crawfish Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hima quadrangle. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Hima within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

505 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 505 fires within 5 miles of Hima between 1994 and 2020, burning about 15,738 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 146 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 burning212
Arson/incendiarism146
Missing data/not specified/undetermined113
Recreation and ceremony30
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Natural1

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 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOOKER BRANCH
24 September 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2007Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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 Hima: 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
Highway 11 RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hima in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHima$2,000Clay County 911 relayed a report of trees and powerlines down at the intersection of Greasy Branch Road and Highway 80, just south of Manchester.
May 2020Flash FloodHima$100Dispatch reported water flowing over Morning Glory Road, making it impassable. This was near Kentucky Highway 80 near Hima.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHima-A tree was blown down onto KY-11 near the community of Garrard.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHima-A tree was blown down on Hwy 1350 in the vicinity of Dory.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Sibert0.5 miles13
Garrard1.7 miles13
Bluehole1.8 miles13
Pigeonroost2.0 miles13
Flatwoods (historical)2.4 miles13
Manchester2.4 miles13
Park Valley (historical)3.0 miles13
Littleton3.2 miles13

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 HimaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5764835The 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 512711. 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.