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Lee City, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hazel Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41301. It stands on Rose Fork. The Survey maps it on the Lee City quadrangle. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Lee City within Wolfe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

180 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Lee City between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,121 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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 burning79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Arson/incendiarism34
Recreation and ceremony22
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
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
5 September 2002Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAMP BRANCH
11 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wolfe County

Storms near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lee City in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 4 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
February 2019Flash FloodLee City$30,000A citizen reported water flowing over Kentucky Highway 205 near Lee City. Water depth increased to 4 to 5 feet at one point, causing a car to become submerged. This resulted in a swift water rescue. One home reportedly had water enter into it.
February 2021Flash FloodLee City$15,000Water began rising in the Lee City community, leading to a water rescue. Exact location within the community is unknown.
April 2015FloodLee City$1,000Highway 205 was closed due to flooding at the intersection of Hwy 1094 in Lee City.
April 2015Flash FloodLee City$1,000Highway 205 was flooded and impassable near Lee City.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindLee City-A tree was reported down across KY-2491 just east of Campton.
July 2022FloodLee City-The Red River was running high through Wolfe County. At 09:00 AM EST there was a report that the Red River was flooding across KY-205 at Lee City. At 11:38 AM EST a second report was made of several inches of standing water from the Red River in the Wolfe County Animal Shelter.
March 2021FloodLee City-Highway 205 is flooded near Lee City.
February 2021FloodLee City-Highway 205 is flooded near Lee City.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLee City-A tree was blown down and onto Hwy 205 in Lee City.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindLee City-Trees were down along Kentucky Highway 205.
July 2004HailLee City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wolfe 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
Helechawa1.9 miles14
Upper Gillmore1.9 miles11
Gillmore1.9 miles11
Belknap2.4 miles11
Lower Gillmore2.6 miles14
Rosefork2.6 miles11
Rose Chapel (historical)3.7 miles13
Burkhart3.8 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on Lee CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6513295The 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 496164. 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.