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Yuma, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Campbellsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42733. It lies near Cave Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mannsville quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Yuma within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Yuma between 1998 and 2019, burning about 158 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3

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
27 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 May 2001Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUNION CHURCH RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yuma in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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 1998Thunderstorm WindYuma$10,000no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindYuma$10,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindYuma-A spotter reported a tree down just to the west of Yuma.
June 1998Flash FloodYuma-State police reported several roads water covered and homes evacuated.
May 2009HailYuma-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Speck3.4 miles9
Elk Horn3.4 miles11
Atchison3.6 miles11
Acton4.6 miles9
South Campbellsville5.8 miles11
Romine6.5 miles12
Hatcher6.7 miles11
Mannsville6.8 miles9

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 YumaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8061021The 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 509425. 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.