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Lisletown, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Ford-Boonesborough census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40391. It stands on Lower Howard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ford quadrangle.

Lisletown within Clark County

On record in Lisletown

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 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lisletown between 1999 and 2017, burning about 33 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/undetermined5
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 June 2000Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMT. MORIAH FIRE
10 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryEKU-FM
30 October 1999Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lisletown: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Boonesboro QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Smitha VeinFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Barium-BaritePast ProducerBarite, Fluorite, Sphalerite

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lisletown in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2020: 1 flash flood, 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
January 2020Thunderstorm WindLisletown-Broadcast media showed pictures of barns flattened in the Boonesborough area.
August 2016Flash FloodLisletown-A trained spotter reported water across Boonesboro Road.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Hootentown1.1 miles15
Providence (historical)1.7 miles17
Locust Grove2.6 miles15
Elkin2.7 miles17
Ford2.7 miles15
Forest Grove3.2 miles17
Becknerville3.3 miles15
Flanagan3.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 496597. 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.