Louisa, Kentucky

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Lawrence County

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 9 records

• Atkins-Carter Houselisted 1988
• Big Sandy Milling Companylisted 1988
• First United Methodist Churchlisted 1984
• Capt. Freese Houselisted 1988
• Louisa Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1988
• Louisa United Methodist Churchlisted 1988
• Fred M. Vinson Birthplacelisted 1974
• Garred House, Chapel, and Burial Vaultlisted 1975
• Louisa Residential Historic Districtlisted 1988

Louisa grew from 2,467 to 2,679 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
• 1911 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:48000
• 1913 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1939 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:24000
• 1971 USGS Louisa quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Louisa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,326 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 106 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Smoky Valley (historical)
• Walbridge
• Holt
• Busseyville
• Chapman
• Deephole (historical)

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louisa in 47 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 26 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence County

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,488 issues, 9,533 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 4 issues spread across its run from 1885 to 1922, 14,123 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 497204. 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.

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.