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Lewistown, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42445. It lies near Carter Hill. The Survey maps it on the Olney quadrangle. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Lewistown within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

34 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Lewistown between 1997 and 2019, burning about 239 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony11
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Natural2

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
29 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAVES FIRE
29 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDAWSON ROAD
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lewistown: 3 prospects, 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Fluorine-Fluorite, Titanium. 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
Hobby Titanium DepositTitaniumOccurrence
Hobby Tungsten DepositTungstenProspect
Morgan Heirs Fluorspar TractFluorine-FluoriteProspect
Phelps Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer
Princeton MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Princeton No. 2 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Princeton Sandstone PitSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewistown in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 1 flood, 1 debris flow. 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
February 2018FloodLewistown$200,000U.S. Highway 62 was restricted to one lane due to a landslide near the Hopkins County line.
February 2025Debris FlowLewistown$10,000Heavy rain(1-2) on the morning of the 15th led to a rock slide that closed the right lane of northbound Interstate 69 at the 87 mile marker.

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Midway1.1 miles15
Pumpkin Center2.8 miles16
Walche Cut3.2 miles16
Claxton3.2 miles16
Ruth3.6 miles13
Cedar Bluff4.4 miles16
Lebanon (historical)4.5 miles16
Scottsburg4.6 miles16

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 LewistownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17492553The 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 508452. 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.