Lost Creek, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Adams census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41264. It stands on Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Richardson quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lost Creek within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1886 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Inez quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Inez quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Richardson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Richardson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Richardson quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

206 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Lost Creek (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9,083 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 68 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 burning	69
Arson/incendiarism	68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Recreation and ceremony	20
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	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
26 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TOMAHAWK
25 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PINEY POINT FARM
22 September 2008	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 August 2008	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	18 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Ray (historical)	0.6 miles	17
Patrick	2.4 miles	17
Lowmansville	2.6 miles	17
Ulysses	2.7 miles	17
Richardson	3.3 miles	17
Brows Defeat (historical)	3.7 miles	17
Peach Orchard	4.3 miles	17
Charley	4.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2121009. 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.