Laketon, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bardwell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42023. The Survey maps it on the Arlington quadrangle.

Laketon within Carlisle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1939 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1951 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1970 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1972 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Laketon between 2009 and 2017, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
25 September 2015	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HWY 1741
20 August 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CORN SHELL
19 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DRIFTWOOD
20 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 February 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WAYNE FREEMAN ROAD
12 November 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	2ND STRIKE TRAIN FIRE
30 October 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GROGAN HOMESTEAD CLEANUP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlisle County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laketon in 2 storm reports in 2018: 2 flood. 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
March 2018	Flood	Laketon	-	Moderate flooding continued on the Mississippi River from late February. Extensive flooding of low-lying bottomlands occurred. Numerous county roads were closed.
February 2018	Flood	Laketon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlisle 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Beech Grove (historical)	1.5 miles	16
Mississippi (historical)	2.6 miles	16
Geveden	4.2 miles	16
Berkley	4.2 miles	16
Bardwell	4.9 miles	16
Winford	4.9 miles	15
Arlington	6.9 miles	16
Morris Valley (historical)	6.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508420. 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.