Leisure, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wrigley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Devils Fork. The Survey maps it on the Wrigley quadrangle.

Leisure within Morgan 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.

1929 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:48000
1935 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Wrigley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Wrigley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

80 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Leisure between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,685 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 30 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
Arson/incendiarism	30
Debris and open burning	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	2

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
19 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROUTE 7
6 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	PARAGON CAMPGROUND FIRE
3 July 2012	Natural	6.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	YOCUM
17 July 1995	Natural	15 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	LITTLE PEA
24 June 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2005	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	ELM LOG
7 April 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leisure in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 debris flow. 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
September 2018	Debris Flow	Leisure	$5,000	Kentucky Department of Transportation officials reported downed trees across Kentucky Highway 711 west of Wrigley. These were the result of a mudslide due to persistent rainfall over the past couple of days. This led to downed power lines and a couple of thousand of power outages.
November 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Leisure	$500	A few large limbs were blown down.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Leisure	-	Kentucky Route 7 was closed near the confluence of the north fork of the Licking River and Road Fork in Wrigley.
May 2011	Hail	Leisure	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Ditney School (historical)	1.7 miles	11
Oak Hill (historical)	1.8 miles	11
Blaze	2.2 miles	11
Wrigley	2.5 miles	11
Blairs Mills	2.7 miles	11
Yocum	4.4 miles	14
Redwine	4.5 miles	10
Fannin (historical)	5.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 513338. 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.