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Mima, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Elkfork-Ophir census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Road Fork. The Survey maps it on the Dingus quadrangle. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.

Mima within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

181 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Mima between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,880 acres in total. None started naturally. 63 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 burning74
Arson/incendiarism63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Recreation and ceremony5

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
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 1260
13 September 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2014Debris and open burning85 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEAR BRANCH HWY 437
2 May 2001Arson/incendiarism12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2020Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGHWAY 589
9 April 2017Debris and open burning174 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRT 437
9 April 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mima: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mjm MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shack Branch ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mima in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 2 flash flood, 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
April 2008Flash FloodMima$55,000A bridge was washed out by flood water on Highway 437.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMima$1,000A tree was blown down at the intersection of KY Hwy 437 and KY Hwy 589 in Mima.
June 2010Flash FloodMima-Water was over Hwy 437 due to Williams Creek and Smith Creek being out of their banks in Mima.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Ophir1.5 miles16
Upper Sandlick (historical)1.5 miles16
Lower Sandlick (historical)2.1 miles16
Cindas Creek2.4 miles16
Silverhill2.7 miles16
Relief2.8 miles17
Coffee Creek (historical)2.8 miles16
Lost Creek (historical)2.8 miles16

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 MimaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690956The 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 508612. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.