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Liletown, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Donansburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42743. The Survey maps it on the Exie quadrangle.

Liletown within Green County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Liletown between 1998 and 2017, burning about 332 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liletown in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLiletown-A tree fell down over Highway 729 in southern Green County.
June 2018HailLiletown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Green 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
Little Barren2.1 miles9
Newt2.6 miles9
Exie2.7 miles9
Pierce3.2 miles9
Mell3.6 miles9
Crailhope4.5 miles11
Fry5.0 miles10
Thurlow5.3 miles9

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 Q122542567The 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 508461. 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.