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Pomp, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wrigley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Lick Fork. The Survey maps it on the West Liberty quadrangle.

Pomp within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

72 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Pomp between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,459 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism18
Recreation and ceremony6

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
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2008Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROUTE 7
15 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGREASY CREEK
16 May 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pomp in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindPomp-Dispatch reported a tree down south of Wrigley.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPomp-A tree was blown down on Hwy 7.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Licking River2.0 miles14
Neal Valley (historical)2.2 miles14
Yocum2.8 miles14
West Liberty2.9 miles14
Dehart3.0 miles14
Fannin (historical)3.2 miles14
Perry Bend (historical)3.4 miles14
Caskey Settement (historical)3.7 miles14

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 PompAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28153536The 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 514687. 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.