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Lookout, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Hellier census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41522. It stands on Seng Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hellier quadrangle. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Lookout within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

306 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 306 fires within 5 miles of Lookout between 1997 and 2020, burning about 27,520 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 59 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
Debris and open burning120
Missing data/not specified/undetermined86
Arson/incendiarism59
Recreation and ceremony36
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryASHCAMP
23 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRUSHY BRANCH
30 June 2012Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOOR BOTTO
18 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lookout: 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Highway 80 RoadcutClayProspect
Roadcut ShaleClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lookout in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2010: 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLookout$1,000One tree was reported down near Lookout.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindLookout-Multiple trees were down along Kentucky Highway 195.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Henry Clay0.5 miles19
Big Branch0.7 miles19
Rockhouse1.2 miles19
Edgewater1.7 miles19
Hellier1.8 miles19
Venters2.0 miles19
Dry Fork2.2 miles19
Ratliff2.9 miles19

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 LookoutAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6675449The 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 497161. 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.