BlockL S Park, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Simpsonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40067. It stands on Big Long Run. The Survey maps it on the Fisherville quadrangle.
On record in L S Park
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.
- Scearce-Roush Houselisted 2017 · 0.2 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1929 USGS Taylorsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Fisherville quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Fisherville quadrangle1:24000
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Fisherville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of L S Park in 2005, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names L S Park in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 5 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | L S Park | $10,000 | Local law enforcement reported a tree down on a house in eastern Shelby County. Several other trees fell across the county. The Kentucky Mesonet site located 10 miles west of Shelbyville recorded a 49 mph wind gust. |
| August 2013 | Hail | L S Park | $10,000 | Hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter was reported along Clark Station Road between Fisherville and Eastwood. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | L S Park | - | A tree was reported down on the 5500 block of Fisherville Road. Several other trees were also reported down across the county. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | L S Park | - | A Kentucky Mesonet site, located 10 miles west of Shelbyville, measured a 59 mph wind gust. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | L S Park | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | L S Park | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conner | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Lincoln Ridge | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Veechdale | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Simpsonville | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Montclair | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Finchville | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Joyes | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Flat Rock (historical) | 6.3 miles | 12 |
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 Q122551503 | The 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 508412. 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.