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Holt, 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 Rice Branch. The Survey maps it on the Louisa quadrangle. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Holt within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Holt between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,304 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 114 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
Arson/incendiarism114
Debris and open burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony15
Equipment and vehicle use7
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryTUG RIVER RD.
7 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySPRUCE BRANCH
12 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Holt: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica. 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
Busseyville Sandstone OutcropSilicaProspect
Lick Creek ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holt in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindHolt$8,000A large section of metal roofing was blown off a shell building along Route 2565, just south of Louisa.
February 2010FloodHolt$1,000Creeks, such as Lick and Morgan, flooded roads.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindHolt$500A tree was blown down across KY 3.
February 2025FloodHolt-Flooding was observed on State Route 644 near South Highway 3.
June 2008HailHolt-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
Walbridge0.6 miles24
Smoky Valley (historical)1.0 miles24
Louisa2.0 miles24
Torchlight2.6 miles24
Summit3.3 miles24
Busseyville4.0 miles23
Five Forks4.3 miles24
Chapman4.4 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.

Wikidata item Q14690628The 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 508270. 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.