Levee, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Jeffersonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40353. It stands on Cream Alley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Levee quadrangle.

Levee within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1892 USGS Beattyville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1950 USGS Levee quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Levee quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Levee quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

29 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Levee between 1999 and 2020, burning about 241 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	10
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	1

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
25 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COPPERAS C
13 June 2000	Debris and open burning	95 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 April 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BLACK CREEK
18 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WARE CHAPPEL RD.
12 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KIDDVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Levee: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Zag Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

23 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Levee in 23 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	$8,000	The survey team saw a large tree trunk snapped and laying on a front porch. In addition, portions of a shed roof were rolled up and another medium sized tree trunk was snapped.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	$7,000	The survey team found a power pole that was snapped and a slightly rotten tree that was split due to high winds.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	$7,000	Several trees were blown down along Levee Road.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	$4,000	Trees were blown down on old Kentucky 11.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	$2,000	A tree was blown down and onto Highway 11 in Levee. Power outages were also reported.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	$1,000	The survey team found multiple small trees and a weathered telephone pole snapped along Cream Alley Road west of Jeffersonville.
August 2014	Flash Flood	Levee	$1,000	Flash flooding was reported near Jeffersonville on Saw Mill Rd and Norman Rd.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	$1,000	A tree was blown down and across a road in Levee.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	$1,000	Small limbs had to be removed from the intersection of Kidville Road and Nest Egg Road.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	-	A tree was reported down on Kidville Road, southwest of Mount Sterling.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	-	The survey team found a healthy hardwood oak tree that had been uprooted along Nest Egg Road.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	-	The survey team saw a large, healthy tree branch snapped, along with a healthy medium tree trunk snapped.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	-	The survey team reported multiple large trees blown down or snapped along Cream Alley Road.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	-	A tree trunk was partially snapped at a residence near the 2700 block of Orear Road.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	-	The survey team found a healthy uprooted oak tree along Nest Egg Road, near the intersection of Old Nest Egg Road.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	-	The survey team saw multiple large tree branches blown down near the 7200 block of Carmargo Levee Road.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	-	Tree limbs were blown down onto Kidville Road. The Highway Department was called to remove them.
April 2020	Hail	Levee	-	A citizen reported nickel sized hail near Levee.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Levee	-	Dispatch relayed a report of water flowing over Orear Road off of Kentucky Highway 11 south of Mount Sterling.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	-	Dispatch relayed reports of multiple trees down between Cream Alley and Camargo Levee Roads in Camargo.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	-	Numerous trees were blown down in the Levee community along Highways 11 and 646.
March 2012	Hail	Levee	-	Baseball size hail was reported along Highway 11 between Levee and the Powell county line.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Levee	-	Trees were down.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Trimble (historical)	2.3 miles	12
Bogy-Chennault (historical)	2.9 miles	8
Camargo	3.0 miles	12
Willoughby Nation (historical)	3.7 miles	12
Calk (historical)	4.3 miles	8
Prewitt	4.6 miles	8
Klondike	4.7 miles	8
Jeffersonville	5.0 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508449. 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.