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Cottageville, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Tollesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41179. It stands on Browns Run. The Survey maps it on the Tollesboro quadrangle.

Cottageville within Lewis County

On record in Cottageville

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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.

Fires near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Cottageville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
30 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryCROOKED CREEK
5 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCABIN CREEK
30 April 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCABIN CREEK RD
2 April 2001Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 April 2001Debris and open burning2.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cottageville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cabin Creek MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottageville in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 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
May 2018Flash FloodCottageville$50,000Flash flooding was reported in the Tollesboro and Camp Dix areas. Ribolt-Epworth Road, Teager Hollow Road, Straight Fork Road, Mosby Road, Cooper Fork Road and Lower Kinney Road all sustained some road damage. Water approached some homes and caused damage to a grocery store in Tollesboro and a funeral chapel in Camp Dix.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCottageville$3,000A few trees were downed onto Little Cabin Creek Road.
March 2013Flash FloodCottageville$1,000Mail carriers reported several instances of water flowing over roadways in the area due to heavy rainfall.
June 2025Flash FloodCottageville-Water was flowing across Cabin Creek Road at several locations.
December 2019FloodCottageville-High water was reported on Cabin Creek Road.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Fearisville1.5 miles14
Tollesboro3.4 miles11
Poplar Flat4.3 miles11
Sand Hill4.3 miles15
Trinity4.4 miles14
Ribolt4.8 miles11
Irwin5.7 miles14
Herron Hill5.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507765. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.