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Lot, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Saxton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40769. It lies near Boston Hill. The Survey maps it on the Jellico East quadrangle. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Lot within Whitley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

188 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Lot between 1997 and 2020, burning about 15,622 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 77 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
Arson/incendiarism77
Debris and open burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural1
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
28 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestry10 MILE MARKER/25W
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
31 May 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTennessee Division of ForestryPRIMROY RD SWIMMING HOLE
29 May 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitley 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 Lot: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, 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
Jellico Stone Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jellico Stone Company QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Whitley County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lot in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 flood. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindLot$2,000A couple of trees were blown down along Mud Creek.
July 2015Flash FloodLot$1,000Keswick Road was closed due to flash flooding.
July 2015FloodLot$1,000Flash flooding transitioned to aerial flooding on Keswick Road, which lasted into the afternoon hours. The road was closed during this time.
August 2001Flash FloodLot$1,000A man had to be rescued after attempting to dislodge his vehicle from swiftly flowing water over Lot - Mud Creek Road.
December 2000Thunderstorm WindLot$1,000One tree, among several others blown down, fell on a house near Mud Creek.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLot-The 911 call center reported trees down on Keswick Road in southern Whitley County.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLot-A tree was blown down along KY-1804.
January 2010FloodLot-Lot Mud Creek Road was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Whitley 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
Fairview1.3 miles17
Red Ash2.1 miles17
Saxton2.6 miles15
Red Ash Coal Camp (historical)4.3 miles16
Mountain Ash4.5 miles15
Packard4.9 miles15
Pleasant View5.7 miles15
Nevisdale6.3 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.

Wikipedia article on LotAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690865The 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 513645. 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.