Lovvorn, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the South Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40228. The Survey maps it on the Mount Washington quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lovvorn within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1907 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1951 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Mount Washington quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Mount Washington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Mount Washington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lovvorn (historical) between 2001 and 2014, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
3 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SKYVIEW
14 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BROAD RUN
8 November 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CEDAR CREEK FIRE
3 October 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 October 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STAVEMILL RD. FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hacienda	1.8 miles	17
Fairmount	2.4 miles	15
Thixton	2.6 miles	15
Highview	2.7 miles	17
Ashville	2.7 miles	17
Smyrna	2.8 miles	17
Cooper (historical)	2.8 miles	17
Spring Mill	2.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2743864. 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.