Lost River, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Bowling Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42101. The Survey maps it on the Bowling Green South quadrangle. It stands 548 feet above sea level.

Lost River within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1921 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
1923 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lost River between 2000 and 2016, burning about 56 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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
24 July 2000	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 July 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MORGANTOWN
30 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 February 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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
Shawnee Estates	1.0 miles	16
Memphis Junction	1.0 miles	16
Crestmoor	1.4 miles	16
Springhill	1.6 miles	16
Eastland Park	2.0 miles	16
Greenwood	3.1 miles	16
Bowling Green	3.1 miles	16
Three Springs	3.2 miles	16

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 Lost River	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690863	The 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 497197. 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.