Lawrenceville, Kentucky

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Williamstown-Dry Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41097. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lawrenceville quadrangle.

Lawrenceville within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1950 USGS Lawrenceville quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lawrenceville between 1998 and 2011, burning about 37 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
7 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 March 1998	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 February 2011	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GOLDEN VALLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawrenceville in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawrenceville	$5,000	Multiple trees knocked down near the intersection of Keefer and Lawrenceville Roads.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lawrenceville	$4,000	A few trees were downed along Heekin Road in the Lawrenceville area.
August 2003	Flash Flood	Lawrenceville	-	Roads were flooded.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Keefer	2.4 miles	6
Heekin	2.9 miles	8
Mason	3.5 miles	8
Holbrook	3.7 miles	6
Stewartsville	4.5 miles	7
Hilltop	4.8 miles	8
Cherry Grove	4.8 miles	8
Blanchet	5.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 496082. 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.