Littleton, Kentucky
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Manchester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Hart Branch. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle. It stands 902 feet above sea level.
On record in Littleton
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Manchester Historic Districtlisted 2023 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1952 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
- 1979 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
462 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 462 fires within 5 miles of Littleton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 14,063 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 143 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 burning | 185 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 143 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 98 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 33 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HOOKER BRANCH |
| 27 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | RUG RAT |
| 26 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 75 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 14 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Littleton: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highway 11 Roadcut | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
6 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Littleton in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 deaths. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Littleton | 3 killed | Multiple reports of flash flooding were received from western Clay County. Reports included:||3:00 AM EST - The bridge at Skull Branch was reported washed out.|3:00 AM EST - The newspaper indicated multiple reporst of flash flooding in the Little Bullskin area near Oneida around this time. Some reports of flooding were also found on social media.|3:18 AM EST - A RV reportedly washed away along Booneville Road near Oneida. |3:20 AM EST - Beech Creek Road at the Bert T. Combs Campground was closed due to flooding.|4:40 AM EST - The culvert for KY-1482 over Panco Branch at the Intersection of Panco Drive washed away.|7:00 AM EST - The cooperative observer in Oneida measured 7.20 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period.|2:09 PM EST (28th) - A landslide (debris flow) was reported on KY-11 near mile marker 22 in Clay County, near the community of Teges. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Littleton | $100,000 | Trees were reported down on Beech Creek Apartments in Manchester. The building had to be evacuated a result. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Littleton | $1,000 | A tree was blown down on State Route 638. |
| March 2021 | Flood | Littleton | - | Highway 638 near Manchester has been closed due to flooding. |
| February 2021 | Flood | Littleton | - | Highway 638 near Manchester has been closed due to flooding. |
| December 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Littleton | - | Dispatch relayed a report of a tree down on Cotton Bend Road northeast of Manchester. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| Flatwoods (historical) | 0.8 miles | 13 | |
| Garrard | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Bernice | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Hima | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Sibert | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Pleasant Valley (historical) | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Sidell | 4.3 miles | 13 |
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 Littleton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14690844 | The 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 513544. 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.





