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Locust Hill, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the McDaniels-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40144. It stands on Fiddlers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Custer quadrangle. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Locust Hill within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

36 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Locust Hill between 1999 and 2019, burning about 243 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Smoking13 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTERRETT RD. FIRE
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFRED PHILLIPS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Locust Hill in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2011Tornado (EF0)Locust Hill$5,000This weak EF-0 Tornado was only briefly on the ground. Along Route 1401, winds estimated at 80 mph tore roof panels off of a large well constructed barn and threw them 200 yards.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLocust Hill-A broadcast meteorologist relayed a report of a large tree down on KY 1401.
April 2002HailLocust Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Woodrow2.2 miles11
Buras2.8 miles11
Kingswood2.8 miles13
Se Ree3.3 miles13
Westview3.4 miles13
Harned3.4 miles17
Mook3.8 miles11
Garfield3.8 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 Locust HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6666122The 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 508488. 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.