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Lenox, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Elkfork-Ophir census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lenox quadrangle. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Lenox within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

91 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Lenox between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,662 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 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 burning33
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2008Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 May 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHADY HOLL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lenox in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 6 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLenox$2,000Two small trees were blown down near Steel Branch.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLenox$1,000A tree was blown down on Hwy 650 one mile off of Hwy 172 near Lenox.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLenox-County dispatch reported a tree blown down about 2.5 miles up KY-650.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLenox-A tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds along KY-650 about 2 miles from the highway's intersection with KY-172.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLenox-A tree was reported down across Big Mandy Road at the intersection of Carl Fannin Road.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindLenox-Trees down on Cow Branch and Highway 172.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Caskey Settement (historical)0.6 miles14
Rush Branch (historical)1.0 miles14
Elamton3.5 miles14
Elkfork3.7 miles14
West Liberty4.0 miles14
Pomp4.2 miles14
Redwine4.3 miles10
Cottle4.7 miles14

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 LenoxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6523144The 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 508445. 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.