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Plummers Mill, 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 41049. It stands on Sand Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plummers Landing quadrangle.

Plummers Mill within Fleming County

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.

Fires near this place

52 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Plummers Mill between 1998 and 2020, burning about 666 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 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
24 April 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGODDARD RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plummers Mill in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2015FloodPlummers Mill$1,000Indian Creek Rd, or Hwy 3301, was closed due to flooding.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPlummers Mill-Trees were reported blown down and blocking half of Morehead Road in the 15400 block, just north of Plummers Mill.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPlummers Mill-One tree was blown down on Highway 32.

Every storm 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 Landing1.3 miles8
Farmville (historical)3.1 miles8
Muses Mills4.1 miles8
Hillsboro4.8 miles10
Goddard4.9 miles8
Grange City6.4 miles10
Sunset6.5 miles10
Ryan6.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122570591The 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 514666. 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.