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Littrell, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kettle-Peytonsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. The Survey maps it on the Blacks Ferry quadrangle.

Littrell within Cumberland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

109 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Littrell between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,521 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism32
Debris and open burning26
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2010Debris and open burning29 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROBERT RIDGE
21 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMODOC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland 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 Littrell: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Oil Shale. 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
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Littrell in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2026Thunderstorm WindLittrell-An old building was destroyed by strong winds along Cherry Tree Road, with no other damage reported in the vicinity. Trees were also blown down on Sulphur Creek Road near Mikes Landing.
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Littrell-The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey and found a|tornado occurred on Sunday, May 26th, 2024. This tornado reached a peak intensity of EF1 with 95 mph estimated peak winds, crossing through portions of southern Cumberland and Clinton County.||The tornado started at Sulphur Creek in southern Cumberland County just to the west|of Celina Road, or Kentucky Route 61. Tree uproot damage was consistent|with EF1 95 mph winds. The tornado then tracked across Celina|Road along Sulphur Creek, and did more extensive tree damage in|the hills west of Peytonsburg Sulphur Road, consistent with 90 to|95 mph wind speeds. The tornado then went across a campground|along Sulphur Creek Road near Mike's Restaurant, and left tree|damage in the campground along with shingle damage to some|cabins. Tree damage continued to the east and hit an RV storage|garage with significant roof loss thrown in different directions|just north of Dale Hollow Lake Golf Course. The tornado crossed another finger of Dale Hollow Lake as it crossed into western Clinton County.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLittrell-Local law enforcement reported that power lines fell across a home along Celina Road west of Dale Hollow Lake.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLittrell-A tree was blown down on a power line on Highway 449.

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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
Poplar Grove (historical)1.3 miles14
Bear Wallow Ridge (historical)1.9 miles14
Kettle2.2 miles15
Tanbark2.6 miles14
Stalcup2.9 miles14
Peytonsburg3.6 miles14
Judio4.5 miles14
Ashlock4.6 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122544959The 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 508480. 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.