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Hummel, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Conway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40456. It stands on Renfro Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wildie quadrangle.

Hummel within Rockcastle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Hummel between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,364 acres in total. None started naturally. 83 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/incendiarism83
Debris and open burning76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
26 September 1998Arson/incendiarism30 acresDaniel Boone National ForestPOPLAR GAP
23 September 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2008Arson/incendiarism12 acresDaniel Boone National ForestGREEN POND
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 August 2007Debris and open burning85 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockcastle County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hummel: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mount Vernon MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mullins MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rockcastle County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hummel in 2 storm reports in 2022: 1 flood, 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
January 2022FloodHummel-KY-1912 is closed between mile markers 0 and 3 due to high water near the community of Orlando.
August 2022Flash FloodHummel-Water was reported on the road near the beginning of Hummel Road.

Every storm recorded in Rockcastle 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
Orlando1.9 miles16
Wildie2.1 miles13
Renfro Valley2.5 miles13
Flat Rock2.6 miles16
Roundstone3.3 miles13
Burr3.9 miles16
Mount Vernon4.2 miles16
Mullins4.7 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 HummelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q109801679The 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 512847. 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.