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Leafdale, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hodgenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42748. The Survey maps it on the Hodgenville quadrangle.

Leafdale within Larue 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

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Leafdale between 1998 and 2017, burning about 150 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
21 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresAbraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic SiteKNOB CREEK
1 April 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 1998Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCANTRELL
16 March 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larue County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Leafdale: 2 prospects. 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
Highway 84 RoadcutClayProspect
Rolling Fork RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Larue County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leafdale in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2014: 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
October 2014Thunderstorm WindLeafdale-A storm chaser reported that two trees were downed by thunderstorm winds east of Hodgenville. One fell along Bardstown Road. Another tree was toppled along State Highway 222.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindLeafdale-A 68 mph wind gust was measured by a Kentucky Mesonet site 2 miles east of Hodgenville.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindLeafdale-The windows were blown out of a house on Dangerfield Road off of Highway 470.

Every storm recorded in Larue 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
White City (historical)1.8 miles8
Jericho3.2 miles8
Buffalo4.0 miles8
Hodgenville4.1 miles8
Boundary Oak4.5 miles8
South Buffalo4.5 miles8
Mathers Mill5.8 miles15
Athertonville5.9 miles9

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 Q122549672The 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 508433. 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.