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Wilmore, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Wilmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40390. The Survey maps it on the Wilmore quadrangle. 5,999 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Wilmore within Jessamine County

On record in Wilmore

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 11 records

Population over time

2 figures

Wilmore grew from 3,686 to 5,999 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20103,686
20205,999+2,313 (+63%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

High Bridge, 4 miles Southwest of Wilmore, High Bridge, Jessamine County, KY
High Bridge, 4 miles Southwest of Wilmore, High Bridge, Jessamine County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Wilmore between 2001 and 2006, burning about 6 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
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jessamine County

Storms near this place

27 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilmore in 27 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 30 injuries. 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 1995Tornado (F2)Wilmore30 hurtno account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWilmore$75,000A NWS Storm Survey team found sporadic wind damage along a 5.5 mile path near Wilmore. Several trees were downed along with some utility poles snapped or bent. There also minor structural damage.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindWilmore$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree, and the tree fell through a house.
August 2020LightningWilmore$30,000Lightning struck a tree which brought down power lines and landed on a house.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindWilmore$25,000The Jessamine County emergency manager reported numerous trees down across roadways. A roof was blown off a sun room off a residence.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindWilmore$5,000A section of a roofing cover was blown off of a building.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindWilmore$5,000An old tree was blown on to a house.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWilmore$2,000Minor damage to structures and some trees down
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWilmore-There were reports of several trees down.
May 2022HailWilmore-Baseball-sized hail was observed in Wilmore.
May 2022HailWilmore-Two inch diameter hail was observed near Wilmore.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindWilmore-There was a report of a tree down on Handys Bend Road.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindWilmore-Dispatch reported a tree down on Grows Mill Road.
November 2017Thunderstorm WindWilmore-Multiple trees were down across the western portions of Jessamine County. Some blocked the roadways.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWilmore-A broadcast meteorologist reported trees down in the area.
June 2015HailWilmore-A trained spotter reported hail 3/4 inch in diameter.
July 2015Flash FloodWilmore-The Jessamine County emergency manager reported that multiple businesses in downtown Wilmore had high water. Also, the EM reported that many streets were flooded across the county.
July 2015HailWilmore-A trained spotter reported nickel size hail in the area.
July 2015HailWilmore-A trained spotter reported hail 1 inch in diameter.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWilmore-The Jessamine County emergency manager reported several trees down just southeast of Wilmore. This same thunderstorm also brought damage to Garrard and Boyle Counties.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindWilmore-The local emergency manager reported trees downed near Wilmore. Also, some trees were downed across the northwest portion of the county.
April 2011Heavy RainWilmore-A trained spotter reported about an inch of rain falling in an hour.
September 2009Flash FloodWilmore-Water was reported to be waist deep across State Highway 33 near the Jessamine and Woodford County lines. Other roads were reported as flooded near Keene. Lexington media reported an ongoing water rescue in northern Jessamine County.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindWilmore-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindWilmore-Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWilmore-A couple of trees were downed.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWilmore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jessamine 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
Pekin (historical)1.6 miles12
Oakdale (historical)1.9 miles12
Jessamine2.3 miles15
Chattersville (historical)2.8 miles15
Lexington Park (historical)3.3 miles15
Wilmore Park (historical)3.6 miles15
Cobbs Service Station (historical)3.9 miles15
High Bridge4.0 miles12

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 WilmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2736542The 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 506874. 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.