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Lothair, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hazard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41701. It lies near Happy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hazard South quadrangle. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Lothair within Perry County

On record in Lothair

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

8 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.

Fires near this place

564 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 564 fires within 5 miles of Lothair between 1993 and 2020, burning about 23,758 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 109 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 burning191
Missing data/not specified/undetermined183
Arson/incendiarism109
Recreation and ceremony59
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural1

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
8 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTIDHAM LN
6 September 2007Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined56 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJEFF
29 September 2007Debris and open burning63 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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 Lothair: 2 prospects. 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
Branch Gap ClayClayProspect
Buffalo Divide ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

8 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lothair in 8 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 debris flow, 1 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
August 2022FloodLothair$5,000High water in downtown Hazard caused a vehicle that was driven into the ponded water to stall. The high water may have been the result of poor drainage as rains moved through.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLothair$3,000A social media report showed damage of a metal awning on a business near the 300 block of Main Street in Hazard.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLothair$1,000Perry county dispatch reported a tree down on Walker Branch road, blocking the highway and trapping power lines.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLothair$1,000Powerlines were blown down near the intersection of Oakhurst Avenue and Brown Street in Hazard.
May 2025HailLothair-Multiple social media posts showed pictures of quarter-sized hail near Woodland Park in Hazard.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLothair-Two trees were blown down and onto Faulkner Avenue, with another tree blown down on nearby Skyline Drive.
March 2021Debris FlowLothair-A mud/rock slide occurred on Skyline Drive in Hazard.
March 2020Funnel CloudLothair-A citizen observed a brief funnel cloud in Lothair, just southeast of Hazard.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Woodland Park0.4 miles16
Christopher0.8 miles16
Hazard0.8 miles16
Diablock1.0 miles16
Fourseam1.5 miles16
Walkertown1.6 miles16
Glomawr1.6 miles16
Allais1.7 miles16

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 LothairAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690868The 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 513647. 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.