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Limestone, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Upper Tygart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41164. It stands on Thompson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Olive Hill quadrangle.

Limestone within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

191 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Limestone between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,685 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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 burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Arson/incendiarism38
Recreation and ceremony26
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
23 September 2010Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryB AND B LANE
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHERYL ROGERS HOLLOW
10 September 2002Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 June 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryDAVIS LANE
5 May 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEHART ROAD
31 May 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 May 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Limestone: 7 past producers, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Chespeake Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer
Lawton Sandstone PitSilicaProspect
Railroad Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer
Dry Branch Strip MineClayPast Producer
Durham Fork ShaleClayProspect
Porter School ShaleClayProspect
Soldier Fork-Macabee Creek Mine 1ClayPast Producer
Soldier Fork-Macabee Creek Mine 2ClayPast Producer
Soldier Fork-Macabee Creek Mine 3ClayPast Producer
Soldier Fork-Macabee Creek Mine 5ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carter County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Limestone in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindLimestone$30,000A roof was ripped off of a mobile home, out buildings were destroyed, and several trees were blown down due to strong winds associated with a microburst.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLimestone$1,000Multiple trees were uprooted and blown down along State Highway 174.
February 2025FloodLimestone-Tygarts Creek above Olive Hill exceeded a bankfull level of 10 feet on the night of February 15th. After cresting just over 13 feet overnight, the creek lowered back into its banks before sunrise on the 16th. Before doing so, however, flooding occurred within fields, low sections of Biggs Bridge Road, and Bond Hollow Road.

Every storm recorded in Carter 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
Lawton0.7 miles9
Silica (historical)1.0 miles9
Clark Hill2.2 miles9
Garvin Ridge2.3 miles9
Globe2.5 miles9
Enterprise2.6 miles8
Offill's Mill (historical)2.6 miles8
Ross (historical)2.9 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508462. 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.