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Rumsey, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Calhoun census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42371. It stands on Myer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Calhoun quadrangle. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Rumsey within McLean County

On record in Rumsey

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Rumsey between 2000 and 2019, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKNOBS #1
13 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 March 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 November 2010Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLAWN MOWER
5 October 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 October 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBED FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rumsey: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
H M MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer

Every working recorded in McLean County

Storms near this place

6 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rumsey in 6 storm reports between 2018 and 2024: 5 flood, 1 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
March 2021FloodRumsey$30,000Moderate flooding occurred along the Green River. The river crested at 29.69 feet on the Calhoun river gage. This was well above flood stage of 23 feet. This was the highest crest since March 1, 2018, when the river crested at 31.67 feet. Portions of Calhoun and Rumsey were flooded, but few if any residences were evacuated. Thousands of acres were flooded in the Island, Rumsey, and Jewel City areas, but the cropland was mostly dormant. Floodwaters approached Kentucky Highway 81 near the Green River bridge. Some county roads were closed.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindRumsey$1,000A tree was uprooted.
May 2024FloodRumsey-Minor flooding of low-lying agricultural lands occurred. Flooding continued into the start of June.
June 2024FloodRumsey-Minor flooding lingered into early June, with continued flooding of some low-lying agricultural areas on the Green River near Calhoun.
May 2021FloodRumsey-Minor flooding occurred on the Green River following the heavy rain on the 4th. Some low-lying woods and fields near the river were flooded.
April 2018FloodRumsey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Calhoun0.5 miles13
Mayo Hills (historical)2.9 miles13
Shutts (historical)3.8 miles13
Brooks (historical)4.0 miles13
Semiway4.1 miles13
Poverty4.3 miles13
Buel4.6 miles13
Underwood4.7 miles13

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 RumseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7379404The 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 502467. 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.