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Saint Elmo, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Oak Grove-Pembroke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42266. The Survey maps it on the Oak Grove quadrangle.

Saint Elmo within Christian County

On record in Saint Elmo

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

8 surveys from 10 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

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Saint Elmo between 2005 and 2010, burning about 179 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
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
20 August 2007Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 July 2008Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 October 2010Railroad operations and maintenance18 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMURRY
2 October 2010Railroad operations and maintenance93 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEERE
17 October 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Christian 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
Hensleytown3.2 miles10
Barkers Mill3.4 miles9
Oak Grove3.7 miles10
Kennedy3.9 miles10
Fidelio4.1 miles10
Longview4.2 miles8
Edgoten4.5 miles10
Pembroke5.4 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508996. 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.