Leatherwood, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Frenchburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40322. It stands on Leatherwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Salt Lick quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Leatherwood within Menifee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1929 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Salt Lick quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Leatherwood (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 714 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	14
Debris and open burning	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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
4 September 2002	Smoking	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	DEVILS SPA
28 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	PICNIC
27 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	LAKESIDE
14 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	ZILPO
11 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WHITTS ACRES
3 July 2012	Natural	7.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	COMBS
15 May 2013	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RYAN ROAD
9 April 1999	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	GRAVEYARD BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menifee 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
Big Woods	3.1 miles	14
Craft (historical)	3.1 miles	14
Scranton	3.1 miles	12
Ratliff	4.5 miles	12
Dan	5.6 miles	14
Korea	6.2 miles	14
Hill Top (historical)	6.9 miles	12
Sudith	7.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2400788. 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.