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Lawhorn Hill, Kentucky

8 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 lies near Elliott Knob. The Survey maps it on the Yosemite quadrangle.

Lawhorn Hill within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

60 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Lawhorn Hill between 1998 and 2020, burning about 969 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance5

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
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 2013Railroad operations and maintenance41 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTRONG BRANCH
24 April 2014Debris and open burning41 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWATSON SAWMILL
22 April 2014Debris and open burning31 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAIRVIEW CHURCH FIRE
2 April 2013Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMASSENGALE
2 April 2013Debris and open burning45 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELLIOT
2 April 2013Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFIRE TOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawhorn Hill in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 4 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
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLawhorn Hill$35,000A trained spotter reported power lines down at the intersection of Highway 501 and 1649.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLawhorn Hill-Scattered tree damage was caused by strong thunderstorm winds across Casey County.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLawhorn Hill-Trees were blown down east of Liberty in Casey County.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindLawhorn Hill-Trees were reported down at Chestnut Hill Road and Poplar Level Road.

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
Poplar Springs (historical)1.9 miles7
Lanhamtown2.9 miles7
Calvary (historical)3.2 miles8
Moore3.3 miles7
Gilpin3.3 miles7
Yosemite3.6 miles8
Athens4.1 miles7
Cantown4.1 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 Q122569878The 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 496066. 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.