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Holmes Mill, Kentucky

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Upper Clover Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40843. It stands on Rockhouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pennington Gap quadrangle. It stands 1,814 feet above sea level.

Holmes Mill within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

60 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Holmes Mill between 1995 and 2020, burning about 6,266 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 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
Arson/incendiarism24
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKARST ROBBINS
12 September 2002Arson/incendiarism35 acresVirginia Department of Forestrynot named
30 May 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresVirginia Department of Forestrynot named
1 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVirginia Department of Forestrynot named
30 April 2001Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreVirginia Department of Forestrynot named
29 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresVirginia Department of Forestrynot named
28 April 2004Arson/incendiarism45 acresVirginia Department of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holmes Mill in 1 storm report in 2009: 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 2009Thunderstorm WindHolmes Mill$4,000Half a dozen trees were blown down along Highway 38. A tree had fallen onto a car at Goose Bottom as well.

Every storm recorded in Harlan 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
Rutherford2.1 miles23
Georgetown3.1 miles23
Clover-Darby3.7 miles23
Rileyville3.9 miles23
Closplint4.3 miles23
Clover4.6 miles20
Black Bottom5.0 miles23
Louellen5.7 miles23

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 Holmes MillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5883595The 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 508269. 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.