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Lodale, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Battletown-Payneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40104. It stands on French Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Amsterdam quadrangle.

Lodale within Meade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Lodale between 1998 and 2012, burning about 89 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySIROCCO RD
22 April 2007Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2009Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 March 1998Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade 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 Lodale: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Battletown MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lodale in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 2 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindLodale-Two buildings sustained wind damage on Crosier Bottom Road.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindLodale-Law enforcement reported roof damage to a home and to outbuildings on Battletown Road.

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Cold Springs0.9 miles15
Battletown1.6 miles15
Oolite1.7 miles15
Liberty2.3 miles15
Sirocco3.7 miles15
Payneville4.1 miles15
Andyville4.9 miles15
Beechland5.1 miles15

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 Q122546333The 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 517061. 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.