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Sublimity City, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the London census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40744. It stands on Cloyd Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lily quadrangle. It stands 1,214 feet above sea level.

Sublimity City within Laurel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

33 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Sublimity City between 2000 and 2019, burning about 311 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony9
Arson/incendiarism2
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
25 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2008Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryREADY MIX RD
6 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBLAKELY LANE
4 April 2019Arson/incendiarism12 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySLATE LICK
4 April 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 April 2008Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurel County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sublimity City in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2009: 2 funnel cloud, 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
June 2009Funnel CloudSublimity City-A funnel cloud was sighted along Old Whitley Road.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSublimity City-Trees and power lines were down.
May 2004Funnel CloudSublimity City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laurel 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
Fariston2.2 miles14
Pine Grove2.2 miles14
London2.4 miles15
Brock4.6 miles13
Pittsburg4.7 miles15
Lesbas4.8 miles13
Maplesville4.8 miles15
Lily4.9 miles14

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 Sublimity CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7631525The 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 515771. 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.