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Lesbas, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Bush census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40744. It stands on Lick Fork. The Survey maps it on the Blackwater quadrangle.

Lesbas within Laurel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

61 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Lesbas between 1997 and 2019, burning about 833 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony14
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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 2007Natural35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOMCAT #2
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOMCAT #1
8 April 2002Railroad operations and maintenance12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2000Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurel County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lesbas in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2010Thunderstorm WindLesbas$3,000A tin roof was partially blown off of a barn near the intersection of Tomcat Trail and Hwy 80E.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLesbas$2,000Laurel county dispatch reported a tree down and electrical wires, leading to a fire on Skyline View, located on the southeast side of London.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindLesbas-Laurel County dispatch reported a tree blown down along East Laurel near the intersection with KY-1561.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindLesbas-A tree was blown down and blocking Skyline View Road southeast of London.
May 2022HailLesbas-The public reported quarter-sized (1.00 inch) hail approximately 1 miles west northwest of Brock.

Every storm recorded in Laurel 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
Laurel River Neighborhood1.2 miles13
Brock2.1 miles13
Boreing3.0 miles14
Lida3.2 miles13
Fariston3.3 miles14
Cane Creek4.2 miles13
Sublimity City4.8 miles14
Marydell5.0 miles13

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 Q122560749The 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 513344. 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.