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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1954 USGS Creekville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
- 1979 USGS Creekville quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph, 1937Taken 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.
Lomax, Alan (1915-2002) (Recordist), 1937. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
143 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 84 |
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | SAWDUST |
| 28 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | BOWENS TRASH |
| 25 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | TIRES |
| 24 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | SUGAR |
| 17 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | TREE |
| 7 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | PEABODY HOUSE |
| 29 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | SUGAR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marcum | - | Numerous trees were blown down along Hwy 66S between Peabody and Gardner. Trash and debris were also reported across the highway. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creekville | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Peabody | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Spring Creek | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Big Creek | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Plank | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Eriline | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Hector | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Mouth of Hector (historical) | 6.3 miles | 13 |
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 Marcum | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6757968 | 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 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.





