Lewis Creek, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Burkesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. It stands on Rocky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Burkesville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lewis Creek within Cumberland County

On record in Lewis Creek

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Coe Houselisted 2009 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Burkesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Burkesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

34 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Lewis Creek (historical) between 1998 and 2019, burning about 466 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
26 August 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 June 2012	Recreation and ceremony	24 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WILSON
21 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2001	Smoking	3.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2012	Debris and open burning	28 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GOOSE CREE
5 March 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland 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 Lewis Creek (historical): 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Oil Shale, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Cadmium, Germanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Burkesville	Zinc, Cadmium, Germanium	Past Producer	Sphalerite
Grider Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Outcrop Sample For Uranium	Uranium, Oil Shale	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Cumberland 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
Dougan Town	0.7 miles	10
Burkesville	1.3 miles	10
Little Renox (historical)	2.9 miles	8
Grider	3.0 miles	8
Bakerton	3.2 miles	10
Bow	3.5 miles	10
Claywell	4.2 miles	10
Sugar Grove (historical)	4.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2742617. 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.