Locust, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41049. It stands on Locust Graveyard Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle.

Locust within Fleming County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

1951 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Locust between 1999 and 2017, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 April 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 February 2017	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WILLIAMS RD
8 November 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 November 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 October 2016	Recreation and ceremony	7.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WILLIAMS RD
22 October 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Locust in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 2 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2021	Flash Flood	Locust	-	A portion of Sunset-Locust Road near Days Mill Road was washed out due to flash flooding.
May 2012	Flash Flood	Locust	-	Locust Creek rose beyond its banks and stranded people near South Lick Rd.

Every storm recorded in Fleming 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
Sunset	2.6 miles	10
Concord	2.7 miles	6
Tilton	3.5 miles	6
Sherburne	3.8 miles	6
Hillsboro	4.0 miles	10
Bald Hill	4.1 miles	10
Olive Branch	4.9 miles	6
Poplar Plains	5.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508484. 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.