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Letitia, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Tygarts Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41175. It lies near Star Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Friendship quadrangle.

Letitia within Greenup 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

158 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Letitia between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,162 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 burning70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism34
Recreation and ceremony13
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2007Debris and open burning45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryAPPLE TREE/ SR 784
14 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHEEP HOLL
10 September 2002Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTOCKHOLM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenup County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Letitia: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Hannah Clay Co. MineClayPast Producer
Horner Clay MineClayPast Producer
Howland Tract MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greenup County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Letitia in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 1 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
February 2009Thunderstorm WindLetitia$3,000A single wide mobile home was blown off its foundation.
April 2025HailLetitia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenup 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
Beechy2.8 miles13
Walsh3.7 miles15
Truitt4.3 miles11
Lynn5.0 miles13
York5.4 miles11
Maloneton5.6 miles15
Sunshine5.7 miles15
Fullerton6.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508448. 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.