Lockwood, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Catlettsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41129. It stands on Lockwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burnaugh quadrangle. It stands 574 feet above sea level.

Lockwood within Boyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

1901 USGS Ceredo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
1913 USGS Ceredo quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Burnaugh quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Burnaugh quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Burnaugh quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Lockwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,236 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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/incendiarism	49
Debris and open burning	31
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Fireworks	2
Other causes	2

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
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	CENTERVILLE RD
27 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	RT. 75
30 August 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
23 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	RT 75 AND RT 52 INTERSECTION
3 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	1190 BALENGEE BR.
8 May 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	TOMS CREEK ROAD
3 May 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	BUFFALO HIGH SC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Durbin	2.2 miles	23
Savage Branch	2.6 miles	23
Whites Creek (historical)	2.8 miles	23
Burnaugh	3.3 miles	23
Durbin-Burnaugh (historical)	3.4 miles	23
Kavanaugh	3.8 miles	23
Big Sandy (historical)	4.7 miles	21
Chadwick Creek (historical)	6.0 miles	22

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 Lockwood	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6665873	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 508483. 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.