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Marcum, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Big Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40914. It stands on Gilberts Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Creekville quadrangle. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Marcum within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1937

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The J. B. Marcum song
The J. B. Marcum song
Lomax, Alan (1915-2002) (Recordist), 1937. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Marcum between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,226 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 84 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/incendiarism84
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestSAWDUST
28 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestBOWENS TRASH
25 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestTIRES
24 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestSUGAR
17 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestTREE
7 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestPEABODY HOUSE
29 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestSUGAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marcum in 1 storm report in 2014: 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
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMarcum-Numerous trees were blown down along Hwy 66S between Peabody and Gardner. Trash and debris were also reported across the highway.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Creekville2.3 miles13
Peabody2.6 miles13
Spring Creek3.4 miles13
Big Creek3.6 miles13
Plank5.2 miles13
Eriline5.7 miles13
Hector5.8 miles13
Mouth of Hector (historical)6.3 miles13

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 MarcumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6757968The 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 513779. 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.