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Lexie, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hazel Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41301. It stands on Carson Fork. The Survey maps it on the Landsaw quadrangle.

Lexie within Wolfe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

119 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Lexie between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,163 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony22
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking2
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
5 September 2002Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAMP BRANCH
2 July 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTRENT HILL-HWY 191
6 May 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryBAPTIST FORK RD.
21 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 May 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 3036

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wolfe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lexie: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Stillwater Sandstone ExposureSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Wolfe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexie in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2011Thunderstorm WindLexie$10,000Large trees were blown down along KY 1010 and the Mountain Parkway by thunderstorm wind gusts 1 mile north of Lexie.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLexie-Wolfe county dispatch reported a tree blown down along Johnson Fork Road, south of Hazel Green.

Every storm recorded in Wolfe 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
Rose Chapel (historical)1.4 miles13
Malaga1.7 miles13
Gillmore1.9 miles11
Upper Gillmore2.2 miles11
Rosedale (historical)2.3 miles13
Landsaw2.5 miles13
Lower Gillmore3.0 miles14
Lee City3.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508453. 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.