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Lionilli, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Dorton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41537. It stands on Brushy Fork. The Survey maps it on the Dorton quadrangle.

Lionilli within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

214 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Lionilli between 1997 and 2020, burning about 14,018 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 39 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 burning101
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Arson/incendiarism39
Recreation and ceremony25
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
9 September 2007Debris and open burning65 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONG FORK VEIRGE
7 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOE'S BR #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lionilli in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLionilli$1,000A public video showed a tree down on a powerline around 2 miles southwest of Dorton.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Dorton2.0 miles18
Myra2.1 miles18
Elimer2.7 miles18
Lower Long Fork (historical)3.6 miles19
Harley (historical)3.6 miles19
Etty3.6 miles19
Hartley3.7 miles19
Jonancy4.1 miles18

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 Q122545907The 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 508471. 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.