Lower Gillmore, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hazel Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41301. It lies near Gibbs Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cannel City quadrangle.

Lower Gillmore within Wolfe 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.

1889 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Cannel City quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Cannel City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

166 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Lower Gillmore between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,561 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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 burning	70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	44
Arson/incendiarism	28
Recreation and ceremony	19
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CAMP BRANCH
1 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 August 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 May 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wolfe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Helechawa	1.6 miles	14
Gillmore	1.8 miles	11
Rose Chapel (historical)	2.0 miles	13
Daysboro	2.1 miles	14
Lee City	2.6 miles	11
Upper Gillmore	2.8 miles	11
Lexie	3.0 miles	13
Hazel Green	3.4 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122557979

The 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 508514. 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.