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Lewisburg, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Maysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41056. It stands on Little Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mays Lick quadrangle. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Lewisburg within Mason County

On record in Lewisburg

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lewisburg between 2014 and 2016, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 November 2016Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPLEASANT VALLEY RD.
11 November 2014Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryREID ST.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewisburg in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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 2019Flash FloodLewisburg$25,000A portion of Strodes Run Road was washed out due to high water.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLewisburg$10,000A communication tower near the Lewisburg Volunteer Fire Department was bent.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindLewisburg$5,000no account filed
July 2010Flash FloodLewisburg$3,000Numerous roads were closed due to high water caused by heavy rainfall.
January 2005Thunderstorm WindLewisburg$3,000Several large tree limbs were downed along Mill Creek Road.
April 2011FloodLewisburg$2,000Several roads were closed across the county due to heavy rainfall.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-The gust was reported on the 21:35 EST observation. The gust time was estimated based on radar data.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-Measured at the Fleming-Mason County Airport.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-Measured at the Fleming-Mason County Airport.
March 2013Heavy RainLewisburg-High water was reported over a few low lying roads due to heavy rain.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-no account filed
March 2023Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-no account filed
January 2020Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-no account filed
April 2020Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-no account filed
November 2013Thunderstorm WindLewisburg-no account filed
July 2000HailLewisburg-no account filed
June 1995HailLewisburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Marshall0.3 miles11
Taylors Mill (historical)2.5 miles12
Weedonia3.5 miles8
Somo3.5 miles12
Helena3.9 miles8
Mount Gilead4.2 miles12
Orangeburg4.2 miles12
Mays Lick4.6 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.

Wikidata item Q63846394The 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 496338. 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.