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Palma, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Calvert City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42025. The Survey maps it on the Elva quadrangle.

Palma within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Palma between 1998 and 2016, burning about 145 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning1

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHISPERING HILLS
28 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMARSHALL
27 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 June 2007Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestry198 STATE ROUTE 1710
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWINDSOR DRIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Palma: 1 prospect, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Chromium, Manganese, Iron. 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
(Facility) Calvert City SmelterChromium, ManganesePlant
Briensburg ShaleClayProspect
Tenn Forging Steel/ Calvert City KyIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palma in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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 1997Thunderstorm WindPalma$50,000A gust to 60 MPH was reported near Palma. About 100 feet of roofing was blown off the IGA store near Possum Trot. Telephone poles were down at Benton.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPalma$20,000Trees were blown down at Possum Trot. Near Tatumsville, roofs were blown off homes, and numerous trees and power lines were down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPalma$5,000Several power lines were down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindPalma$4,000A microburst blew down numerous 12 to 20-inch trees in the Gilbertsville area. An off-duty National Weather Service employee estimated gusts near 60 MPH near Palma.
September 2006Flash FloodPalma-Six inches of water was over Highway 1712.
June 1999Flash FloodPalma-Thunderstorms produced torrential rainfall. A spotter reported rainfall of 2.1 inches in 45 minutes at Draffenville. Creeks near Palma and Sharpe rose very rapidly. In some low-lying areas, eight to ten inches of water covered roads.
May 1997Flash FloodPalma-A slow-moving line of thunderstorms produced as much as 3 inches of rain in 3 hours near U.S. 68 in northern Marshall County. U.S. 68 was under water near Palma.
April 2020HailPalma-no account filed
April 2009Thunderstorm WindPalma-no account filed
February 2007HailPalma-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Pugh (historical)2.2 miles13
Griggstown (historical)2.4 miles12
Lone Valley (historical)2.7 miles13
Angle Creek2.9 miles22
Draffenville3.6 miles13
Harris Hill Ford4.0 miles12
Scale4.1 miles13
Possum Trot4.1 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 500138. 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.