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Muses Mills, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41093. It stands on Greenbrier Branch. The Survey maps it on the Plummers Landing quadrangle. It stands 715 feet above sea level.

Muses Mills within Fleming County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

48 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Muses Mills between 1999 and 2020, burning about 544 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
3 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 July 2012Natural10 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBEN HAM
7 July 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBEN HAM
9 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestSCHOOLHOUSE
8 April 2017Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryISLAND FORK
3 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGODDARD RD
25 April 2012Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySUIT LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Muses Mills in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindMuses Mills$5,000Trees down on Tomishmael Road off Highway 32.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindMuses Mills$3,000Power lines were downed.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMuses Mills$1,000Numerous trees were blown down and the roof of porch was damaged.
April 2010HailMuses Mills-Quarter size hail fell in Muses Mills.
April 2007Funnel CloudMuses Mills-Funnel cloud sighted over Muses Mills.
July 2001Flash FloodMuses Mills-Creeks overflowed onto roadways in the area. Some roads were closed due to the high water.
August 2001Flash FloodMuses Mills-3 to 4 inches of water was reported flowing over Kentucky Highway 1013.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindMuses Mills-Trees were downed.

Every storm recorded in Fleming 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
Ryan2.7 miles8
Plummers Landing2.8 miles8
Park Lake Resort (historical)3.9 miles8
Plummers Mill4.1 miles8
Goddard4.7 miles8
Wallingford5.9 miles8
Carpentersville (historical)6.0 miles8
Pea Ridge (historical)7.1 miles8

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 Muses MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622019The 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 514171. 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.