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Lisman, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Providence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42404. The Survey maps it on the Nebo quadrangle.

Lisman within Webster 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

32 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Lisman between 2000 and 2015, burning about 939 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
21 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 June 2012Debris and open burning122 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPLASTIC FI
20 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryJUNKYARD F
9 April 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 April 2001Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lisman in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
July 2016Flash FloodLisman-Portions of Kentucky Route 132 West were closed due to flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Jolly1.6 miles13
Stanhope3.8 miles13
Free Union4.2 miles13
Dixon4.3 miles13
Clay4.6 miles12
Diamond5.0 miles12
Providence5.0 miles12
Vanderburg5.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 496598. 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.