BlockParmleysville, Kentucky
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Coopersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42633. It lies near Horse Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Parmleysville quadrangle. It stands 902 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1934 USGS Pall Mall quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Parmleysville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
47 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Parmleysville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,394 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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 | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 200 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 149 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BIG PILOT ROCK |
| 30 June 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | ROCK |
| 17 June 2007 | Natural | 50 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | PARKER MTN. |
| 10 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 197 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 April 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | 4-H |
| 4 April 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PARMLEYSVILLE ROAD |
| 15 April 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | PETER GAP |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parmleysville in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2011: 1 hail, 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Griffin | 1.9 miles | 9 | |
| Burfield | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Mount Pisgah | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Rockybranch | 3.7 miles | 9 | |
| Coopersville | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Barrier | 5.9 miles | 14 | |
| Kidds Crossing | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Oil Valley | 6.7 miles | 14 |
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 Parmleysville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7139217 | 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 514443. 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.