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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.

Littleton within Clay County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

462 since 1994

Regional 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 burning185
Arson/incendiarism143
Missing data/not specified/undetermined98
Recreation and ceremony33
Smoking1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2007Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOOKER BRANCH
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestRUG RAT
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Highway 11 RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Flash FloodLittleton3 killedMultiple 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 2024Thunderstorm WindLittleton$100,000Trees were reported down on Beech Creek Apartments in Manchester. The building had to be evacuated a result.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLittleton$1,000A tree was blown down on State Route 638.
March 2021FloodLittleton-Highway 638 near Manchester has been closed due to flooding.
February 2021FloodLittleton-Highway 638 near Manchester has been closed due to flooding.
December 2016Thunderstorm WindLittleton-Dispatch relayed a report of a tree down on Cotton Bend Road northeast of Manchester.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Manchester0.7 miles13
Flatwoods (historical)0.8 miles13
Garrard2.7 miles13
Bernice3.1 miles13
Hima3.2 miles13
Sibert3.2 miles13
Pleasant Valley (historical)4.1 miles13
Sidell4.3 miles13

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 LittletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690844The 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.