Lakeview Heights, Kentucky
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Morehead census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40351. It lies near Dane Greer Hill. The Survey maps it on the Farmers quadrangle. 277 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 804 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresLakeview Heights grew from 251 to 277 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 251 | |
| 2010 | 185 | -66 (-26%) |
| 2020 | 277 | +92 (+50%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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 Salt Lick quadrangle1:62500
- 1934 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Farmers quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Farmers quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
71 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Lakeview Heights between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,786 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | LAKESIDE |
| 25 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | LOCKEGEE ROAD |
| 22 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BRATTON BRANCH |
| 21 September 2007 | Fireworks | 95 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | DARK HOLLOW |
| 13 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | LOCKEGEE |
| 2 June 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | GEORGE 2 |
| 10 May 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lakeview Heights: 3 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plant C Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Plant K Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Eastside Roadcut Clay Bed | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Ellitoville Gully | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Sweetnam Mine | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeview Heights in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Tornado (F2) | Lakeview Heights | - | Department of Emergency Service reports tree damage in a 360 degree pattern. Tornado lifted up just West of Morehead. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluestone | 0.4 miles | 11 | |
| Farmers | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| Cogswell | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Brady | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Ramey | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Clearfield | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Morehead | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Slatey (historical) | 5.1 miles | 11 |
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 Lakeview Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2393178 | 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 513192. 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.






