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Lanhamtown, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42539. It stands on Doe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle.

Lanhamtown within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

52 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Lanhamtown between 1998 and 2020, burning about 634 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony9
Arson/incendiarism8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
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 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 August 2008Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2014Debris and open burning41 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWATSON SAWMILL
22 April 2014Debris and open burning31 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAIRVIEW CHURCH FIRE
17 April 2008Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2008Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey 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 Lanhamtown: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Roadcut Bench Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lanhamtown in 8 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2016Thunderstorm WindLanhamtown$5,000A Casey County official reported trees down and power outages.
April 2025Flash FloodLanhamtown-Highway 127 flooded north of Liberty. Water receded in the night.
April 2025Flash FloodLanhamtown-There was a water rescue for a person in a semi truck on Dry Ridge Road.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLanhamtown-A tree was on US 127 near the Casey County Board of Education.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLanhamtown-Multiple trees were blown down on Highway 70 near Casey County High School.
August 2022Flash FloodLanhamtown-US 127 was closed due to high water.
June 2020Flash FloodLanhamtown-Multiple roads were closed in Liberty due to high water.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLanhamtown-A Kentucky department of highways official reported to the NWS that a large tree was blown down over a roadway.

Every storm recorded in Casey 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
Moore0.7 miles7
Stapp (historical)2.9 miles8
Lawhorn Hill2.9 miles8
Yosemite3.1 miles8
Poplar Springs (historical)3.2 miles7
Liberty3.3 miles7
Middleburg3.6 miles8
Beech Bottom3.7 miles7

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 Q122570786The 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 508427. 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.