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Landsaw, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Malaga census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41301. It stands on Murphy Fork. The Survey maps it on the Landsaw quadrangle.

Landsaw within Wolfe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1940

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Rural mailman leaving the post office in Landsaw, Kentucky, to take the mail up the paths and creek beds where no cars or wagons can pass
Rural mailman leaving the post office in Landsaw, Kentucky, to take the mail up the paths and creek beds where no cars or wagons can pass
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

128 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Landsaw between 1997 and 2020, burning about 968 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Recreation and ceremony22
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking1

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
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBAPTIST ROAD
2 July 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTRENT HILL-HWY 191
6 May 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryBAPTIST FORK RD.
20 May 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 3036
8 April 2017Arson/incendiarism14 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTERRILL FORK RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wolfe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Landsaw: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Stillwater Sandstone ExposureSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Wolfe County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Landsaw in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2011: 3 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
February 2011Thunderstorm WindLandsaw$15,000Several houses along Landsaw Rd sustained roof damage. Several trees were also blown down along the Mountain Parkway near Landsaw.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindLandsaw$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLandsaw-Trees were down along Kentucky Highway 1812 between Landsaw and Malaga. Large branches were also down and blocking Kentucky Highway 1261.

Every storm recorded in Wolfe 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
Rosedale (historical)0.2 miles13
Baptist1.5 miles13
Malaga1.7 miles13
Chamber Fork (historical)2.0 miles13
Lexie2.5 miles13
Stillwater2.7 miles14
Nelson (historical)3.0 miles12
Rose Chapel (historical)3.0 miles13

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 Q122560434The 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 508424. 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.