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Kimbrell, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Irvine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40336. It lies near Sugarloaf Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Clay City quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Kimbrell within Estill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

78 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Kimbrell between 1996 and 2020, burning about 666 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony10
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
26 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestCHESTNUT STAND
24 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 May 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2001Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Estill County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kimbrell in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 3 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKimbrell-A tree was reported down on Hwy-82 near the community of Kimbrell.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindKimbrell-Dispatch reported a tree blown down across Lilys Ferry Road in Kimbrell.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindKimbrell-A tree was blown down along Hwy 82 between mile markers 3 and 4.

Every storm recorded in Estill 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
Hargett1.8 miles15
Spout Springs1.8 miles12
Calloway Creek (historical)2.3 miles12
Sams (historical)2.6 miles15
Iron Mound2.9 miles15
Cressy3.0 miles15
Bogie (historical)3.6 miles15
Palmer4.0 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 KimbrellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690767The 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 513139. 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.