BlockBefore

Wanamaker, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sebree census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42455. The Survey maps it on the Dixon quadrangle.

Wanamaker within Webster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Wanamaker between 2003 and 2016, burning about 13 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/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryFLAMING TI
7 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 November 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryTREE FIRE
11 October 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 October 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wanamaker in 1 storm report in 2024: 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
May 2024HailWanamaker-Hail estimated to penny size was reported, via mPING, as a result of a thunderstorm line moving eastward.

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Tilden2.8 miles13
Poole2.9 miles14
Ortiz4.0 miles15
Pratt4.8 miles15
Little Zion5.2 miles13
Dixon5.9 miles13
Gatesville6.3 miles15
Sebree6.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509315. 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.