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Fallsburg, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Louisa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41230. It stands on Savage Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fallsburg quadrangle. It stands 574 feet above sea level.

Fallsburg within Lawrence County

On record in Fallsburg

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Fallsburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,982 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 39 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 burning40
Arson/incendiarism39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony16
Natural1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2001Natural5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fallsburg in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$25,000Trees fell onto electric lines causing damage to poles. About 25 tress were blown down in the vicinity. Minor roof damage also occurred.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$20,000Trees were blown down in scattered locations around Fallsburg and Fuller.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$5,000Trees were blown down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$5,000Several trees were blown down.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$2,000Large branches were blown down, some across roads.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$2,000no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$1,500Multiple trees were blown down on Route 3 in the Fallsburg area.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$500Near Fallsburg, multiple trees were blown down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$500A tree was blown down near Delong Branch Road.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$500One tree fell down along State Route 3 due to wet soils and gusty winds.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$200A tree was blown down along Austin Branch Road in Fallsburg.
January 2018HailFallsburg-The ground was covered with hail. Most of it was pea sized, but some stones as big as dimes were noted.
March 2022HailFallsburg-no account filed
June 2022HailFallsburg-no account filed
May 1997HailFallsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Stringtown0.3 miles24
Fullers1.6 miles24
Yatesville2.0 miles24
Potters (historical)2.1 miles24
Green Valley (historical)2.9 miles24
Greenwood (historical)3.1 miles25
Morgans Creek (historical)3.2 miles24
Five Forks3.3 miles24

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 FallsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5432547The 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 491966. 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.