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.
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
- Kentucky 1013 Bridge, Spanning Sand Lick Creek at Kentucky Route 1013, Plummers Landingfederal building survey, 11 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1951 USGS Plummers Landing quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
48 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | PAR 5 |
| 3 September 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 July 2012 | Natural | 10 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | BEN HAM |
| 7 July 1999 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | BEN HAM |
| 4 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 42 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ISHMAEL RD |
| 9 April 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 55 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GODDARD RD |
| 25 April 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SUIT LANE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plummers Mill | 1.3 miles | 8 | |
| Muses Mills | 2.8 miles | 8 | |
| Goddard | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Farmville (historical) | 4.3 miles | 8 | |
| Ryan | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Hillsboro | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Park Lake Resort (historical) | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Wallingford | 6.5 miles | 8 |
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 Landing | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q30622053 | 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 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.



