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Lewisburg, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lewisburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42256. The Survey maps it on the Lewisburg quadrangle. 748 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

Lewisburg within Logan County

Population over time

3 figures

Lewisburg fell from 903 to 748 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000903
2010810-93 (-10%)
2020748-62 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

15 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Lewisburg between 2001 and 2014, burning about 84 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
25 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 June 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2014Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOGAN RAILROAD
17 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2009Equipment and vehicle use20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryEPLEY STATION
21 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lewisburg: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc. 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
Frazier Hollow ProspectBarium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, ZincProspect
Kentucky Flagstone Company QuarrySilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewisburg in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2007Flash FloodLewisburg$100,000Three homes across from Reservoir Drive were taking on water as Town Creek overflowed its banks. Some families required evacuation.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindLewisburg$50,000Unspecified structural damage was reported at Kingport Avenue in Lewisburg.
May 1995HailLewisburg$5,000no account filed
February 2019Flash FloodLewisburg-Ten inches of water was reported over road 1/2 mile from 106 and 1153 intersection near Alum Creek.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-Trees were blown down on Green Rd. and Highway 106 in Lewisburg.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-A few trees were downed.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-Trees and power lines were downed.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. One tree was blown on to a power line, knocking it down.
April 2006HailLewisburg-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-no account filed
May 2004HailLewisburg-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-no account filed
April 1998HailLewisburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Henrysville (historical)0.9 miles8
Jerico1.8 miles8
Stewarts Ridge (historical)1.8 miles8
Edwards1.9 miles8
Wolf Lick2.3 miles11
Lost City2.3 miles8
Spa3.5 miles7
Diamond Springs3.7 miles11

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 LewisburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2093234The 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 496337. 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.