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Kirkmansville, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Kirkmansville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42220. It stands on Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kirkmansville quadrangle.

Kirkmansville within Todd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Kirkmansville between 2001 and 2010, burning about 189 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
24 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance125 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 February 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 February 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirkmansville in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindKirkmansville$3,000Trees were down along Highway 107 east of Kirkmansville.
March 2025HailKirkmansville-Hail up to the size of quarters fell near the Christian County line just west of Kirkmansville.
May 2024Flash FloodKirkmansville-A foot of water was over KY-107 between Kirkmansville and Clifty.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindKirkmansville-Numerous trees were blown down in the west part of the county.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindKirkmansville-Two trees were blown down on Highway 171 just south of the Muhlenberg County border. Hail covered the ground at Clifty, but the hail size was not reported.
April 1999FloodKirkmansville-Slow-moving thunderstorms caused some minor problems with water over roads in northwest Todd County.
June 1998HailKirkmansville-Baseball size hail fell near Kirkmansville.
August 1998Flash FloodKirkmansville-A nearly stationary thunderstorm dumped excessive rainfall over a small part of Todd County northwest of Elkton. Estimated rainfall amounts of 2.5 inches in one hour were reported. The storm occurred over a small part of the county that was sparsely populated.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindKirkmansville-Trees were blown down.
February 1997Flash FloodKirkmansville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Tuckertown (historical)2.5 miles7
Mount Tabor3.8 miles7
Clifty5.1 miles7
Allegre5.8 miles7
Flat Rock (historical)6.2 miles7
Tyewhoppety6.5 miles12
Mays Store6.6 miles12
Cedar Grove7.0 miles7

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 KirkmansvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122543384The 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 495801. 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.