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Livingston, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Livingston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40445. It stands on Gauley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Livingston quadrangle. 166 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Livingston within Rockcastle County

Population over time

2 figures

Livingston fell from 226 to 166 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010226
2020166-60 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

351 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 351 fires within 5 miles of Livingston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,511 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 129 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
Arson/incendiarism129
Debris and open burning118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined78
Recreation and ceremony16
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCROMER RIDGE
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockcastle County

Storms near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Livingston in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 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 2008Thunderstorm WindLivingston$7,000A large sycamore and several smaller trees were blown down.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindLivingston$2,000Trees blown down on Highway 490 east of Livingston and on Calloway Branch Road by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindLivingston-Rockcastle County dispatch reported 2 trees blown down on South Wilderness Trail (US-25) near MM2.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLivingston-Rockcastle 911 Center reported several trees down on South Wilderness Road, 2 miles south of Livingston near the Laurel County line.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLivingston-Rockcastle 911 reported several trees down on South Wilderness Road, 2 miles south of Livingston, near the Laurel County line.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLivingston-A large limb was blown down onto US-25 South, blocking the roadway.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindLivingston-A tree was downed on Piney Branch Road in the Livingston community, according to a public report relayed through television media.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLivingston-Multiple trees were reported to have been blown down in and near the community of Livingston.
January 2022FloodLivingston-KY-490 is closed between mile markers 0 and 7 due to high water in the Livingston community.
April 2021HailLivingston-An employee at the Family Dollar in Livingston reported that up to quarter-sized hail fell near the store.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLivingston-The highway department reported that strong thunderstorm wind gusts caused a tree to fall across KY-1955 between mile markers 1 and 2.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLivingston-Several trees were blown down in Livingston, including one that fell on a home.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLivingston-Numerous large limbs and several trees were blown down near Livingston.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLivingston-Two trees were blown down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindLivingston-A tree was blown down on Piney Branch.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindLivingston-Trees were blown down on Red Hill Rd near the Livingston area.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindLivingston-Trees and power lines were blown down in Livingston.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindLivingston-Trees were blown down on Red Hill Road.
August 2013Heavy RainLivingston-The IFLOWS gage at Livingston measured a 24 hour rainfall total of 2.6 inches.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindLivingston-Numerous trees were down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLivingston-Trees were downed.
November 2002HailLivingston-no account filed
November 2002HailLivingston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockcastle 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
Sinks2.7 miles15
Mullins3.3 miles15
Pine Hill3.4 miles16
Flat Rock5.3 miles16
Luner5.4 miles14
Wellhope5.6 miles16
Burr5.7 miles16
Orlando5.9 miles16

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 LivingstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1900504The 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 513549. 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.