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Levi, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Booneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. It lies near Mine Knob. The Survey maps it on the Booneville quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Levi within Owsley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

386 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 386 fires within 5 miles of Levi between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,157 acres in total. None started naturally. 72 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 burning168
Missing data/not specified/undetermined115
Arson/incendiarism72
Recreation and ceremony26
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACK GAP
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUILLEN ROAD
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Levi in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2014: 3 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
May 2014Thunderstorm WindLevi-A tree blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts was blocking Hwy 30 West in Levi.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindLevi-A tree blocking both lanes of Hwy 30 East 2 miles west of Booneville.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindLevi-Several trees were down.

Every storm recorded in Owsley 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
Pleasant Neighborhood (historical)0.9 miles14
Elk Lick Neighborhood (historical)1.5 miles14
Pebworth1.7 miles13
Scoville1.8 miles14
Booneville2.4 miles14
Fish Creek Neighborhood (historical)2.7 miles13
Needmore Neighborhood (historical)2.9 miles14
Vincent2.9 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 LeviAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6535338The 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 513349. 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.