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Logansport, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Morgantown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42261. It lies near Millers Rock. The Survey maps it on the Cromwell quadrangle.

Logansport within Butler County

On record in Logansport

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Logansport between 2000 and 2010, burning about 160 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2001Arson/incendiarism45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2001Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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 Logansport: 1 plant. 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
Gary Bros. No. 2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Logansport in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2017: 3 hail, 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
July 2012HailLogansport-One inch hail was reported by the public 6 miles northwest of Morgantown.
April 2017HailLogansport-no account filed
October 2007HailLogansport-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindLogansport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Taylors Chapel (historical)3.0 miles12
Eden3.4 miles12
Gilstrap3.9 miles12
Mining City4.0 miles11
Provo4.8 miles11
Aberdeen5.1 miles12
Flener5.4 miles12
Morgantown6.1 miles14

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 LogansportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85781913The 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 508491. 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.