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Pilgrim, Kentucky

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Warfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41250. It stands on Pipe Mud Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kermit quadrangle. It stands 636 feet above sea level.

Pilgrim within Martin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 26 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

281 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Pilgrim between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,246 acres in total. None started naturally. 74 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 burning115
Arson/incendiarism74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Recreation and ceremony28
Fireworks5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
25 September 1999Debris and open burning20 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryOLD KERMIT GRADE SCHOOL
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryEMILY CREEK ROAD
22 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning3.1 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryMARROWBONE JUNCTION
21 September 2008Debris and open burning327 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 1714 CANEY
21 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin 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 Pilgrim: 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
Highway Roadcut Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Martin County

Storms near this place

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pilgrim in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPilgrim$5,000Martin County dispatch reported over a dozen instances of trees blown down onto or along highways in the county. Some of the trees involved power and phone lines. The Pilgram, Warfield, and Inez communities may have been the most affected.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPilgrim$5,000There were trees blown down on Meade House road in Pilgrim.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindPilgrim$5,000Trees down on Highway 292 in Riverfront area, right on Martin county line.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPilgrim$3,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down along Peter Cave Road near the community of Pilgrim.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPilgrim-A tree was reported down on Rockastle Road.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindPilgrim-Dispatch reported a tree blown down on Wolf Creek Road near Pilgrim.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPilgrim-Numerous trees were blown down along Hwy 1714.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindPilgrim-Trees were blown down on Meathouse and Wolfe Creek Roads.
June 2006HailPilgrim-no account filed
April 2002HailPilgrim-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Martin 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
West Lovely (historical)1.7 miles26
Lovely2.1 miles26
Beauty3.0 miles26
Warfield3.1 miles26
Threeforks3.3 miles26
McClure4.2 miles26
Laura5.2 miles20
Hode6.0 miles25

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 PilgrimAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7193915The 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 508820. 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.