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Knowlton, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Clay City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40380. It lies near State Rock. The Survey maps it on the Stanton quadrangle.

Knowlton within Powell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Knowlton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 820 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism13
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHARLIE LANE
14 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 May 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFURNACE JUNCTION ROAD
8 April 2008Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 1992Debris and open burning33 acresDaniel Boone National Forestnot named
6 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Powell County

Storms near this place

10 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knowlton in 10 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 10 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
April 2022Thunderstorm WindKnowlton$22,000Powell County dispatch reported that a house off of Darrell Randall Rd in Stanton, Kentucky had its roof blown off, as well as a vehicle damaged from the roof. ||WKYT in Lexington also reported on this story. The information can be found at: https://www.wymt.com/2022/04/18/it-sounded-like-house-was-going-blow-apart-eastern-kentucky-family-cleaning-up-after-strong-storms-dealt-severe-damage/ .
June 2010Thunderstorm WindKnowlton$5,000Trees were blown down onto power lines in the Cat Creek area.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindKnowlton$2,000Large tree limbs were partially blocking the road at the intersection of James Crowe Hollow and Cat Creek Roads.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindKnowlton-Powell County dispatch reported a tree blown down in the 5800 block of Furnace Road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindKnowlton-A tree was downed along Darrel Randall Road just south of Stanton.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindKnowlton-A tree was reported down across KY-213, heading up Furnace Mountain - just south of Stanton.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindKnowlton-A tree was blown down near 300 High Rock Road, just northeast of Rogers Chapel.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindKnowlton-A tree was blown down near 1300 Darrel Randall Road in rural southern Powell County.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindKnowlton-A tree was reported down along Cat Creek road in the Cat Creek community.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindKnowlton-Multiple trees were blown down on Highway's 1057 and 213 with hail up to the size of dimes also observed in the area.

Every storm recorded in Powell 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
Cat Creek (historical)2.2 miles13
Pecks Creek (historical)2.3 miles13
Hatton Creek (historical)2.7 miles13
Hemlock Lodge (historical)3.4 miles13
Rosslyn4.0 miles13
Campton Road (historical)4.0 miles13
Stanton4.2 miles13
North Bend (historical)4.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 513168. 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.