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Permon, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Barbourville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40759. It stands on Flat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barbourville quadrangle.

Permon within Knox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

152 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Permon between 1997 and 2019, burning about 4,632 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 29 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 burning82
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2

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
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism24 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPERMAN ROAD
12 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 June 2012Debris and open burning63 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySWAN LAKE
23 June 2012Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBULL RUN F
7 May 2014Natural26 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySWAN POND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Permon: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Louden ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Permon in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2020Thunderstorm WindPermon$2,500A citizen reported a tree blown down along with damage to the roof of a shed near Permon and Clate southwest of Barbourville.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindPermon-The Little Poplar Creek Volunteer Fire Department posted on social media that they responded to downed trees blocking the roadway near the intersection of KY-11 South and KY-1530 (J Logan Road), southwest of the Jarvis community.
June 2018HailPermon-A trained spotter observed quarter sized hail west of Permon.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPermon-Large tree limbs over 2 inches in diameter were blown down. A trampoline also blown across a fence.

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Swan Lake3.0 miles17
Dishman Springs4.1 miles17
Swanpond4.4 miles17
Providence5.3 miles17
Apple Grove (historical)5.6 miles17
Barbourville6.2 miles17
Davis Bend (historical)6.4 miles17
Wilton6.5 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122553738The 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 508803. 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.