Limestone Springs, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Shepherdsville Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40165. It stands on Cave Hollow Branch. The Survey maps it on the Shepherdsville quadrangle.

Limestone Springs within Bullitt County

On record in Limestone Springs

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.

T. Jeremiah Beam Houselisted 1987 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1949 USGS Shepherdsville quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Shepherdsville quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Shepherdsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Shepherdsville quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Shepherdsville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

56 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Limestone Springs between 1998 and 2020, burning about 179 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	16
Recreation and ceremony	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 June 2000	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 April 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullitt 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Clermont	0.8 miles	12
Poplar Level	1.7 miles	12
Bardstown Junction	1.8 miles	12
Hobbs	2.3 miles	12
Ridgetop	3.0 miles	11
Old Belmont (historical)	3.1 miles	12
Belmont	3.4 miles	12
Lick Skillet (historical)	3.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508463. 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.