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Plumville, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Maysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41056. It lies near Sycamore Hill. The Survey maps it on the Orangeburg quadrangle.

Plumville within Mason County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Plumville between 1997 and 2016, burning about 43 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2

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 August 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCABIN CREEK
30 April 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2001Debris and open burning2.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMAXEY FLAT
15 March 2014Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCABIN CREEK
3 November 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Plumville: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cabin Creek MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Buckeye PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maysville Dredging, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plumville in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
June 2008Flash FloodPlumville$5,000High water closed several roads throughout the county.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindPlumville$4,000,,,,,,,,Hail (0.75) Several trees downed, some knocking down power lines.
February 2025FloodPlumville-Day Pike was closed due to flooding over the roadway.
June 1998HailPlumville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Springdale1.5 miles12
Rectorville2.3 miles12
Orangeburg2.5 miles12
Bates (historical)2.8 miles15
Taylors Mill (historical)3.6 miles12
Somo3.6 miles12
Maysville4.6 miles15
Lewisburg6.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 500980. 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.