Wilmington, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Grants Lick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41001. The Survey maps it on the De Mossville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wilmington within Campbell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1929 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:48000
1936 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS De Mossville quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS De Mossville quadrangle1:24000
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS De Mossville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Wilmington (historical) between 2002 and 2012, burning about 125 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
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	57 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	53 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KLEIN FIRE
23 October 2012	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RECTOR RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Abbott (historical)	1.7 miles	11
Clay Ridge (historical)	2.5 miles	11
Grants Lick	3.5 miles	11
Pleasant Ridge (historical)	3.9 miles	13
Fairlane	4.1 miles	11
Hopeful (historical)	4.3 miles	11
Plum Creek (historical)	4.9 miles	10
Aspen Grove	5.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2564990. 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.