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Poplarville, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Mount Victory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42501. It lies near Merritt Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Dykes quadrangle.

Poplarville within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

49 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Poplarville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,895 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking1
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
26 September 2008Arson/incendiarism15 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBURNT CAR
22 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2007Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2020Debris and open burning21 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGULF RIDGE
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresDaniel Boone National ForestSNAKE POND
24 April 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2007Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poplarville in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 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 2021Thunderstorm WindPoplarville-A tree was reported down just SW of the Mount Victory Community.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPoplarville-Two trees were blown down in Poplarville on Hwy 3269.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Hail2.5 miles17
Mount Victory2.7 miles14
Colo2.9 miles14
Dykes3.0 miles14
Meece3.8 miles11
Northfield3.9 miles11
Goodwater4.9 miles16
Hargis4.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 514721. 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.