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Lovelaceville, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Wickliffe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42060. It stands on Granite Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lovelaceville quadrangle. 124 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Lovelaceville within Ballard County

On record in Lovelaceville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Lovelaceville between 1998 and 2012, burning about 118 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 September 2008Recreation and ceremony40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 2010Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROSS CROSSING
22 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMT. ZION C
7 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenance50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 November 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ballard County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lovelaceville in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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
June 2013Flash FloodLovelaceville$100,000In La Center, flash flooding damaged three businesses along U.S. Highway 60. A storage building, propane company, and insurance company were flooded to a depth of approximately 5 to 8 inches. Water in parts of a parking lot was over four feet deep. Water at one point flooded over the top of a 500-gallon tank. Several vehicles were stranded in at least two feet of floodwater across U.S. Highway 62 near Lovelaceville. Highway 2532 near Kevil was closed due to at least one-half foot of flowing water across it.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLovelaceville$20,000The entire roof was ripped off an old vacant school building. A utility pole was broken.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLovelaceville$15,000Trees were down in Lovelaceville and along U.S. Highway 62 near the Mayfield Creek bridge. A vehicle was damaged.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLovelaceville$10,000Two large trees were blown down near U.S. Highway 62. Utility companies cleared the debris, which affected power lines.
June 2019Tornado (EF1)Lovelaceville$5,000The tornado touched down near Lovelaceville in Ballard County, but the vast majority of the track was in McCracken County. This tornado uprooted and snapped several trees before it crossed into McCracken County. The tornado crossed U.S. Highway 62 near the south edge of Lovelaceville. Peak winds in Ballard County were estimated near 100 mph. This was the third and longest of three tornadoes that occurred along a path from western Carlisle County to McCracken County.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLovelaceville$5,000Many large branches were blown down along a half-mile stretch U.S. Highway 62. A combination of power lines and tree limbs across the road kept traffic restricted to one lane for a couple hours.
March 2023Flash FloodLovelaceville-U.S. Highway 62 was closed at the Carlisle County line, where Mayfield Creek flows under the roadway.
October 2013Heavy RainLovelaceville-A trained spotter reported two inches of water over U.S. Highway 62.
March 2002Flash FloodLovelaceville-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindLovelaceville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ballard 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
Ross Crossing3.2 miles10
Gage3.5 miles10
Ceredo5.4 miles16
New York6.6 miles10
Blandville7.3 miles10
Hinkleville7.5 miles16
Kevil8.6 miles16
Slater9.0 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 LovelacevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5981655The 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 497219. 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.