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Plummers Landing, 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 Moran Branch. The Survey maps it on the Plummers Landing quadrangle. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Plummers Landing within Fleming County

On record in Plummers Landing

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Kentucky 1013 Bridge, Spanning Sand Lick Creek at Kentucky Route 1013, Plummers Landing, Fleming County, KY
Kentucky 1013 Bridge, Spanning Sand Lick Creek at Kentucky Route 1013, Plummers Landing, Fleming County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

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 Plummers Landing between 1999 and 2020, burning about 600 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
4 September 2002Naturalunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestPAR 5
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
4 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined42 acresKentucky Division of ForestryISHMAEL RD
9 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
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

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
Plummers Mill1.3 miles8
Muses Mills2.8 miles8
Goddard4.1 miles8
Farmville (historical)4.3 miles8
Ryan5.4 miles8
Hillsboro5.5 miles10
Park Lake Resort (historical)5.8 miles8
Wallingford6.5 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 Plummers LandingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622053The 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 514665. 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.