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Seymour, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hardyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42749. The Survey maps it on the Park quadrangle.

Seymour within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Seymour between 1999 and 2019, burning about 95 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance29 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Smoking16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 March 2007Natural3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 October 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUCK WILLIAMS ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart 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 Seymour: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Horse Cave QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seymour in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
January 2013Thunderstorm WindSeymour$30,000Several barns sustained wind damage ranging from peeled metal roof panels to complete collapse along and west of U.S. Highway 31E from the Barren County border to near Hardyville.
March 1997Tornado (F0)Seymour$5,000no account filed
May 2024HailSeymour-Quarter sized hail observed near the intersection of Seymour Bear Wallow Road and Kentucky Route 218.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSeymour-Trees and a barn were blown down and a roof was blown off a home.

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
LeGrande1.4 miles11
Uno2.0 miles11
Wigwam (historical)2.1 miles11
Three Springs3.2 miles11
Rex4.0 miles11
Bunnell Crossing4.5 miles11
Pascal5.2 miles11
Horse Cave5.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509037. 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.