Lewis Creek, Kentucky

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.

• John Shell Cabinlisted 1975 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1887 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:125000
• 1891 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
• 1903 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:48000
• 1916 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:48000
• 1919 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS Bledsoe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1977 USGS Middlesboro quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Bledsoe quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Lewis Creek between 1994 and 2019, burning about 10,846 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Chappell
• Napier
• Mozelle
• Upper Laurel Fork (historical)
• Asher
• Causey

Every fire recorded in Leslie County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lewis Creek: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewis Creek in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Leslie County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 513363. 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.