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Little Rock, Kentucky

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Middletown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40361. It stands on Plum Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Middletown quadrangle. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Little Rock within Bourbon County

On record in Little Rock

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Cane Ridge Meeting House, Little Rock Road, Paris, Bourbon County, KY
Cane Ridge Meeting House, Little Rock Road, Paris, Bourbon County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Little Rock between 2000 and 2011, burning about 32 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 March 2000Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROGERS MILL
7 February 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 November 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bourbon County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Rock in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLittle Rock$30,000The Bourbon County Emergency Manager reported that severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn.
August 2015Flash FloodLittle Rock-A Bourbon County law enforcement official reported high water flowing over Cane Ridge Road near Little Rock Christian Church.
March 2012HailLittle Rock-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLittle Rock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bourbon 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
Plum1.5 miles5
Bunker Hill2.9 miles5
Jackstown3.5 miles5
North Middletown4.6 miles5
Blacks Crossroads6.1 miles6
Millersburg9.0 miles6
Stony Point9.1 miles7
Escondida10.5 miles8

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 Little RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690841The 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 496843. 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.