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Simers, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Fedscreek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41539. It stands on Cane Fork. The Survey maps it on the Lick Creek quadrangle.

Simers within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

111 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Simers between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,319 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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
Debris and open burning54
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
12 September 2002Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 May 2014Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLAYNE BRANCH
18 May 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 May 2000Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 1999Arson/incendiarism85 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined450 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKIMPER
6 April 1999Debris and open burning350 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2016Misuse of fire by a minor13 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONG FORK OF KIMPER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Simers in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 3 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindSimers-Local media and dispatch relayed reports of trees blown down near Johns Creek east of Kimper and in the Mudlick community northeast of McAndrews.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSimers-A tree was blown down along Grapevine Road.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindSimers-A tree was blown down on Long Fork road blocking traffic.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Head of Johnson Creek (historical)1.6 miles19
Nigh2.3 miles19
Dunlap2.7 miles20
Biggs3.0 miles19
Calloway Branch (historical)3.9 miles20
Phyllis4.2 miles19
Fedscreek4.2 miles20
Coleman4.3 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122598582The 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 503519. 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.