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Leitchfield Crossing, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Munfordville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42765. It lies near Tanyard Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Munfordville quadrangle.

Leitchfield Crossing within Hart 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

19 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Leitchfield Crossing between 2004 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 July 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryYODER FIRE
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMCCUBBINS FIRE
18 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHESTNUT GROVE CEM.
31 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryROCKY HILL RD.
24 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Leitchfield Crossing: 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Geralds Stone Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bowles Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Childress Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Murray Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leitchfield Crossing in 2 storm reports in 2015: 2 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLeitchfield Crossing-A Hart County official reported that trees fell down as a result of severe thunderstorm winds north of Munfordville.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLeitchfield Crossing-A trained spotter reported trees down across Highway 31W.

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Perryville1.4 miles11
Mount Beulah1.4 miles11
Munfordville2.3 miles11
Kessinger2.5 miles11
Woodsonville3.0 miles11
Logsdon Valley3.6 miles11
Rowletts4.3 miles12
Hinesdale4.8 miles12

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 Q122546566The 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 508441. 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.