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.
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.
- Memorial Gymlisted 2024 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1916 USGS Cornettsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Hazard South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Hazard South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Hazard South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
564 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 191 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 183 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 109 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 59 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | STIDHAM LN |
| 6 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 56 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JEFF |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 63 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Branch Gap Clay | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Buffalo Divide Shale | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
8 since 2020Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Flood | Lothair | $5,000 | High 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lothair | $3,000 | A social media report showed damage of a metal awning on a business near the 300 block of Main Street in Hazard. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lothair | $1,000 | Perry county dispatch reported a tree down on Walker Branch road, blocking the highway and trapping power lines. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lothair | $1,000 | Powerlines were blown down near the intersection of Oakhurst Avenue and Brown Street in Hazard. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Lothair | - | Multiple social media posts showed pictures of quarter-sized hail near Woodland Park in Hazard. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lothair | - | Two trees were blown down and onto Faulkner Avenue, with another tree blown down on nearby Skyline Drive. |
| March 2021 | Debris Flow | Lothair | - | A mud/rock slide occurred on Skyline Drive in Hazard. |
| March 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Lothair | - | A citizen observed a brief funnel cloud in Lothair, just southeast of Hazard. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland Park | 0.4 miles | 16 | |
| Christopher | 0.8 miles | 16 | |
| Hazard | 0.8 miles | 16 | |
| Diablock | 1.0 miles | 16 | |
| Fourseam | 1.5 miles | 16 | |
| Walkertown | 1.6 miles | 16 | |
| Glomawr | 1.6 miles | 16 | |
| Allais | 1.7 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 Lothair | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14690868 | 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 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.







