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Lindseyville, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Brownsville North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42210. It stands on White Oak Fork. The Survey maps it on the Brownsville quadrangle. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

Lindseyville within Edmonson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Lindseyville between 1998 and 2017, burning about 600 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
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
7 September 1999Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use400 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 April 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMammoth Cave National ParkTAURUS
8 March 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edmonson 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 Lindseyville: 4 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Coal, Coal. 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
Bee Spring QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dismal Creek Eastwall Clay PitClay, CoalProspect
Dismal Creek QuarryFire Clay (Refractory), Rock Asphalt, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dismal Creek West Clay PitCoal, ClayProspect
Irving QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Vincent Prospect PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Johnson Mine Clay PitClayProspect

Every working recorded in Edmonson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lindseyville in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
May 2021Flash FloodLindseyville-There was a rapid rise in water over East Harris Road.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindLindseyville-A tree was downed on Indian Creek Road.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindLindseyville-One tree was reportedly blocking P Lindsey Road, and another tree was blocking Poplar Springs Road. Both trees were in the Sweeden Area.

Every storm recorded in Edmonson 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
Sweeden1.5 miles13
Woodside2.0 miles13
Windyville2.1 miles13
Ridgedale2.2 miles13
Black Gold2.5 miles13
Kyrock2.8 miles13
Brownsville3.3 miles13
Bee Spring3.7 miles13

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 LindseyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690832The 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 496576. 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.